Explore It!
eBook - ePub

Explore It!

Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing

  1. 186 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Explore It!

Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing

About this book

Software is full of surprises. No matter how careful or skilled you are, when you create software it can behave differently than you intended. Exploratory testing mitigates those risks.

Part 1 introduces the core, essential skills of a master explorer. You'll learn to craft charters to guide your exploration, to observe what's really happening (hint: it's harder than it sounds), to identify interesting variations, and to determine what expected behavior should be when exercising software in unexpected ways.

Part 2 builds on that foundation. You'll learn how to explore by varying interactions, sequences, data, timing, and configurations. Along the way you'll see how to incorporate analysis techniques like state modeling, data modeling, and defining context diagrams into your explorer's arsenal.

Part 3 brings the techniques back into the context of a software project. You'll apply the skills and techniques in a variety of contexts and integrate exploration into the development cycle from the very beginning.

You can apply the techniques in this book to any kind of software. Whether you work on embedded systems, Web applications, desktop applications, APIs, or something else, you'll find this book contains a wealth of concrete and practical advice about exploring your software to discover its capabilities, limitations, and risks.

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Table of contents

  1. Explore It!
  2. For the Best Reading Experience...
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Early Praise for Explore It!
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Part 1: Establishing Foundations
  9. Chapter 1: On Testing and Exploration
  10. Chapter 2: Charter Your Explorations
  11. Chapter 3: Observe the Details
  12. Chapter 4: Find Interesting Variations
  13. Chapter 5: Evaluate Results
  14. Part 2: Adding Dimensions
  15. Chapter 6: Vary Sequences and Interactions
  16. Chapter 7: Explore Entities and Their Relationships
  17. Chapter 8: Discover States and Transitions
  18. Chapter 9: Explore the Ecosystem
  19. Part 3: Putting It in Context
  20. Chapter 10: Explore When There Is No User Interface
  21. Chapter 11: Explore an Existing System
  22. Chapter 12: Explore Requirements
  23. Chapter 13: Integrate Exploration Throughout
  24. Appendix 1: Interviewing for Exploratory Testing Skills
  25. Appendix 2: Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
  26. Bibliography