BWT Chapter 20 had given us a great opportunity to discuss with Dr Cem Kaner regarding specifications based testing , it was awesome .Unfortunately I missed the second part of BWT due to the huge Power cut at my place But Thanks to Twitter , I received a Tweet by Ajay about the Europe Weekend Testing session and I jumped with joy, there’s more,Skype crashed and a great amount of time was wasted in uninstalling and reinstalling it , by the time I could join I had only 17 minutes. The Help feature was disabled .I tested the application for 17 minutes. I did find a couple to bugs but did not send my bug report ,I was late we were supposed to send in 11 minutes and also I wasn’t aware of the Report format, nor could ask due to time constraints and the bugs found were just 3.
I became a silent observer of the discussions happening later enjoying the questions, discussions and suggestions given, all stalwarts of Testing, wow. Right from questions like if asking to STOP testing was a trap, can we search for bugs already found using Google and whether Tester’s having DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE are helpful or not. Well looking forward to participating in more of these sessions, blogging more about them.
Lessons learnt:
• Remember the lessons learned and keep on applying them.
• It is okay to be a silent observer but be alert.
• Speak your mind out, I liked the way Maik asked questions in case he had any doubts.
• Have to learn to start preparing the Report as soon as Testing begins.
• Not to be panicky if unable to find a bug in the first few minutes.
• Try to explore the Application for a few minutes before starting to Test.
• Most important not to be hesitant to blog about it :)
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• Try to explore the Application for a few minutes before starting to Test.
Is exploring also a testing? Or testing is exploring?
@Anonymous Thanks for dropping by and reading ,you can get your answer from this http://www.satisfice.com/articles/et-article.pdf
My doubt in learning from the post was what 'is exploring application for a few minutes before starting to test'?
While exploring one will be testing and during testing one will be exploring, is my understanding.
The PDF document pointed out by you say, Exploratory testing is simultaneous learning, test design, and test execution.
Also read here that 'explore application for a few minutes before starting to Test.' is what confusing to me.
What I will be doing while I am exploring is testing or not?
Jassi
"explore for few minutes and then start testing"
To me exploring is also testing and testing is also exploring.
It is like taste the food and see it is digestible, then eat food remaining if exist. Do I am exploring and testing simultaneously here?
If no desired food remains in that place will go to next place to start exploring for desired food with doubt in mind why no desired food here. And it goes in continuous loop of seeking that is exploring and testing.
@Anonymous When I said try to explore I meant that try to understand the application ,before deciding which area/s to attack first for Testing .
Yes Testing is inherent, all of us testers be it even while we are even just browsing through maybe "orkut" or trying to "Tweet" on Twitter would be always having that "Testing stuff" in the back of the mind :),looking out for bugs/issues :)).isn't it?
"When I said try to explore I meant that try to understand the application ,before deciding which area/s to attack first for Testing."
Is understanding is also testing? Let us take an example. How did I understand or not understand what a person wrote. Is it by analyzing, applying my test ideas, watching and understanding them etc.
"Yes Testing is inherent"
Is testing is inherent always? If so, will we test always and take decision? If I place sugar powder in salt powder container, do one tastes is it salt or not always while adding it to the dish? Also let us assume now that sugar and salt powder are of equal grain size and similar property when touched.
"looking out for bugs/issues :)).isn't it?"
Looking just for bugs, will take away anything from tester?
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