# SWTC Belfast - Exploratory Testing and Chartering

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**Created:** [21 February 2019 15:11 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/swtc-belfast-exploratory-testing-and-chartering/23161 "2019-02-21T15:11:16Z")\
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Thank you all again for joining us last night. Great to see new faces and many returning faces too.

It seems I forgot to take pictures of the flip charts on the evening so you’ll have to make do with my less colourful handwritten version.

We talked about the value of charters

 ![IMG_20190221_150044663](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ministryoftesting/original/2X/d/dee76f94d106936b722996ee74a754c4de5cea51.jpeg)

Reference article from @maaret

> **[Ninja training for software testers](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/search?q=how%2Bto%2Bexplore%2Bwith%2Bintent%2Bexploratory%2Btesting%2Bself%2Bmanagement)**
>
> Join the Ministry of Testing community - a great place to learn all things testing, connect with others interested in software quality, and contribute to the advancement of the software testing craft!

The process of creating charters

 ![IMG_20190221_150053989](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ministryoftesting/original/2X/2/2e39787d48eeed1036c9bf4fa9be0105117e46b9.jpeg)

Templates to use when creating charters

 ![IMG_20190221_150103154](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ministryoftesting/original/2X/6/6ccd1f258d932583ff6a09f852842df94209bc1b.jpeg)  
Reference from the example template [GitHub - minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings: The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.](https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings)

When this was tweeted out, it generated another discussion here on the Club [Test Charter Template](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/test-charter-template/23138).

Then you all set about creating your own charters and it was great to see the differences in thinking in the room

 ![IMG_20190221_150113259](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ministryoftesting/original/2X/9/9066dd33929e9ba7148d020839e215cbebe3caa9.jpeg)  
 ![IMG_20190220_201108380](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ministryoftesting/original/2X/d/dd4ab0ac33c2b97b0882f28f0226777f6929d975.jpeg)

The challenge we set you at the end of the evening:

> Pick a site, generate a charter and run it against the site. Share your notes and experiences on The Club

What site did you choose and what did you learn?