# What tools and things do you use to help you with exploratory software testing?

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**Created:** [15 February 2017 21:02 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-and-things-do-you-use-to-help-you-with-exploratory-software-testing/61 "2017-02-15T21:02:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![thomjr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/thomjr/32/10093_2.png) [@thomjr](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/thomjr)\
**Post date:** [15 October 2019 18:56 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/what-tools-and-things-do-you-use-to-help-you-with-exploratory-software-testing/61/52 "2019-10-15T18:56:57Z")

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Yes, Xmind is a wonderful tool to take notes.  
Some time ago I thought about incorporating PQIP (read about it in [Cassandra H. Leung’s blog post](https://www.cassandrahl.com/blog/sbtm-in-practice-with-pqip), which also Includes [Simon Tomes’ video](https://twitter.com/simon_tomes/status/981452214601383937) on that topic) into my mind maps.

Here is an image of the template  
 ![PQIP8](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/ministryoftesting/original/2X/1/16c48c622652d9045b40fe5c78385785bd74d8df.png)  
I had to change some Icons as I wanted to use the default icons of Xmind 8. And I introduced two subcategories for “Idea”, to indicate whether it is an idea for a new charter or for a new feature.

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