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A few of you have gently but reasonably taken me to task for apparently dropping the " How to Manage Exploratory Testing " series ...

So I saw this, and I thought you should, too: Just an Ordinary Day in Skyrim . Particularly funny bug at 20s or so in. While I'm h...

tl;dr – scripted guides may not help exploration Team leaders tell me ‘My testers use manual testing scripts*, but I want them to do mor...

tl;dr – tl;dr your ET notes to see where you've been I’ve worked with plenty of testers who don’t timebox their time, don’t set out...

tl; dr – scheduling ET changes the game. This is how to cope. The team decides to budget a fixed amount of time for exploratory testing....

tl;dr – exploration every single day works wonders Every day, one person explores for 90 minutes, allocating a further 30 minutes to bug ...

tl;dr – exploratory testing can be a gamble. And what's the problem with that? As I write this, it’s coming up to Christmas*. Ch...

tl;dr – Can Kanban work for ET? Kanban is a way of managing inventory* – and by making that management visually clear, of helping workers...

tl;dr - Bug Bashes are rubbish. The project gathers people together at an appointed time and place. Everybody splurges on testing for an...

tl;dr – skilled, supported, concentrated exploration The team makes one person* the dedicated explorer for a period. This person, who we...

tl;dr – some people hide their best work from their paymasters A few people get together to find problems in snatched moments. There...

tl; dr - lots of different ways to manage ET The key problem that exploratory testing faces, as a viable discipline, is how it is managed...