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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Bit of a gap?

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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 ...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Comedy bug, and upcoming events

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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...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Known ways of managing ET #05 - Off-Piste Testing

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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...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Uncommon Ways of Managing ET #04 - Post-partum Labelling

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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...
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Thursday, January 05, 2012

Known ways of managing ET #04 - Set Aside Time

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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....
Friday, December 23, 2011

Uncommon Ways of Managing ET #03 - Daily News

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tl;dr – exploration every single day works wonders Every day, one person explores for 90 minutes, allocating a further 30 minutes to bug ...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Known ways of managing ET #03 - The Gamble

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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...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Uncommon ways of managing ET #02 - Kanban

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tl;dr – Can Kanban work for ET? Kanban is a way of managing inventory* – and by making that management visually clear, of helping workers...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Known ways of managing ET #02 - Bug Bash

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tl;dr - Bug Bashes are rubbish. The project gathers people together at an appointed time and place. Everybody splurges on testing for an...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Uncommon way of managing ET #01 - Scouting

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tl;dr – skilled, supported, concentrated exploration The team makes one person* the dedicated explorer for a period. This person, who we...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Known way of managing ET #01 - Stealthily

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tl;dr – some people hide their best work from their paymasters A few people get together to find problems in snatched moments. There...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

There are Plenty of Ways to Manage Exploratory Testing

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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...
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