Coding QA Podcast: Episode 7 A Tour Around Exploratory Testing

In this show Federico and Matthew talk about what exploratory testing (ET) is and how the ASP.NET QA team uses this methodology for testing.

            <p>News</p>
            <ul><li><a href="http://aspnet.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Dynamic%20Data">Dynamic Data release in CodePlex.com</a> </li><li>TechEd 2009 </li><li><a href="http://www.asp.net/ajax/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/">Ajax Control Toolkit Refresh released</a>.</li></ul>
            <p>Exploratory Testing</p>
            <ul><li>Definition </li><li>Differences between exploratory testing and scripted testing </li><li>Differences between exploratory testing and ad-hoc testing </li><li>The 4 principles of exploratory testing <ul><li>Creativity </li><li>Goal oriented </li><li>Reproducibility </li><li>Adaptability</li></ul>
            </li><li>How the ASP.NET QA team uses exploratory testing </li><li>When is exploratory testing a good fit to test a product </li><li>Brief example of an exploratory testing session </li><li>What are the outcomes of an exploratory testing session <ul><li>Scenarios tried </li><li>Questions </li><li>Assumptions </li><li>Defects </li><li>Future scenarios</li></ul>
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