Time: 1 hour
Purpose: When testing a product in an exploratory style, it can sometimes feel overwhelming. There are challenges around knowing:
- What to test?
- What not to test?
- What testing has been done previously?
- What testing will be done in the future?
- When you’re complete?
Fortunately, you can use exploratory testing charters as a guide to help answer those questions and focus your testing.
So before any exploratory testing is carried out, we need to spend time creating Charters, which you will practise in this activity.
Introduction: You are working on a team that is delivering a product that has a series of risks or areas that you’re interested in learning more about. We want to be able to structure exploratory testing sessions around those risks and areas.
Task: As a pair, sit down together and each of you spend some time sharing details of the products or features you are responsible for testing. Share details such as:
- What is being implemented
- What impact does it have on the wider product
- What risks you are interested in
Once you’ve shared that information, work as a pair to identify Charters for exploratory testing using the template:
Exploring…. Using… To Discover….
Make sure you note the Charters down for use in the next activity.