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

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Do you have any practice example using xmind? Can you share a real example? Would be great =)

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Some interesting articles, videos that could give you the idea:
http://www.inspiredtester.com/inspired-tester-blog/visual-test-models with the example:
https://www.xmind.net/m/XPwP/
http://thinktesting.com/articles/xbtm-harnessing-the-power-of-exploratory-testing/
http://thinktesting.com/articles/follow-up-on-xbtm/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUojNfDjIjw
http://apps.testinsane.com/mindmaps/

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VUE and KeepNote are two of my favourite ones, not least because they are cross platform as I use both Windows and Linux.

http://vue.tufts.edu

http://keepnote.org/

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I think building a mind map when doing exploratory testing helps with the process.

You might be interrupted mid way and still be able to continue where you left off with a mind map

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I’m a little late to this one, but I have a fairly simple setup. Aside from a notebook and pen for quick notes and things to think about later:

I use Onenote to jot down notes from exploratory testing sessions, using a simple template - it’s useful to be able to organise the different pages in specific notebooks/tabs as I also use Onenote for my other testing. It’s easy to attach copies of files produced by the session, e.g. csv and pdf exports. I’ve also found tagging useful as you can apply several tags to one paragraph so I tend to tag pass/fail/question/ideas to easily search for them later or see at a glance how something looks overall.

I’ve started using Loom to record the test sessions as I’ve found it’s much quicker than taking screenshots and typing out what I was doing at the time. It’s easy to share videos and I’ve found it useful to be able to check exactly what I did before finding something that turned out to be a bug.

And, of course, the web app I test is only supported on Chrome so I use the developer tools as well.

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Hello All,

While doing exploratory testing i will use below list of tools.

  1. Loom recorder for screen recording
  2. CSS Viewer for checking the HTML details
  3. Broken Link Checker for checking the broken links on site
  4. Linkdialler (Using Linkdialler you can dial a link, create numbers for links which you and others can dial and also store them as favourites.)
  5. Bugasura APP for doing Mobile App’s testing & Mobile sites testing on Android devices.
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One tool:

Love it. Respect to The Club’s own @simon_tomes for breathing life into it, it’s rare a tool itself can institute real change and I’m cautious of overselling it, but it has revolutionised testing at my company :bowing_man:

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Thank you for your kind words, @wildtests! We’re so glad to hear of TestBuddy’s positive impact. :grinning:

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Hello dear,

I really like your question…

There are so many paid or free tools are available in the market which can save your valuable time and also give you the best result as compare to the manual testing, because it is the world of technology::grinning:

So here I would like to suggest some list of automation testing tools which will be helpful to you…

  • Selenium

  • Appium

  • Katalon Studio

  • Cucumber

  • HPE Unified Functional Testing (UFT)

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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, which also Includes Simon Tomes’ video on that topic) into my mind maps.

Here is an image of the template
PQIP8
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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And as rafaelcrvs asked for an example, I can share an practice example I recently did. The focus of the session was on debriefs, so the session was only 10 minutes (and I polished the notes a little with respect to PQIP).

The charter was defined as:
My mission is to explore FF
in order to get an overview of features and a first impression of issues.

FF_PQIP
FF_PQIP.png981×573 26.5 KB

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This is incredibly cool, @thomjr! :grinning:

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Great to see a real-life practice example of PQIP in action on a mind map. I could imagine this would trigger an excellent conversation between you and others!

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Combining the power of structured mind maps with the PQIP icons definitely helps.

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Note taking, some mind-map tool you’re comfortable with, an HTTP client (such as Postman), web browser(s), some extensions for your browser, like the BugMagnet for checking input fields and I use that X-ray’s Exploratory Testing app, although it’s been a little unstable from the last update. I really hope they fix it as the app is quite useful.

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You can have a look at aifex: https://www.aifex.fr/
"AIFEX comes with a Browser Extension. It:

  • Monitor the tester’s interactions, and send them to the AI.
  • Retrieves the AI predictions for the next interactions, and renders them directly in the browser."
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Hey Rosie,

Here are a few good tools that you can consider to lead your exploratory test project:

  1. Xray Exploratory App (XEA)

  2. TestBench

  3. QTest Explorer

  4. Test Rail.

However, if you need to have complete detail of the process like how Exploratory testing works, here is a quick link to the blog written on Exploratory Testing - The Ultimate Guide by one of my companions working at a software testing services company.

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It says the doc is deleted :frowning:

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Thanks for spotting and pointing that out, @markjnicoll. It has sadly been deleted and I don’t think it’s recoverable due to a closing down of a Google Account.

Perhaps this is an opportunity to write it again and host it on the MoT Platform. :thinking:

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