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Hint and tips on How to manage Exploratory testing

I have been investigating and using the exploratory testing approach within my organisation and I struggle to manage and measure the effectiveness of this approach. I have been us …
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My colleagues are resisting change. What is a successful #softwaretesting case study I can learn from?

To state the obvious, change management can be hard in software testing groups. From my experiences, this often appears to be true even when benefits to change appear obvious and …
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form filling workflow test cases

a software called livecycle has got forms with different fields in which data is to be filled. on submitting the form the data is stored in the mysql database. the user fills the f …
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Is there a paper showing error guessing is more effective than pairwise testing? (from Twitter)

(This one is coming from @chris_mcmahon on Twitter). Background to this posting:
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How much more does it cost to fix bugs found in production vs. Unit Testing? vs. Systems Testing?

OK, first things first here: I know this is, in the words of Michael Bolton, a "unicorn question" and also that the challenge in providing a meaningful answer to this question is …
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What is the best book available for effective Software Test Design methods?

I feel software test design, and by that, I mean the approach to determining what tests should be executed in order to perform software testing as efficiently and effectively as po …
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Where can I find an excellent introduction to Test-Driven-Development?

With thanks to Lanette Cream, (AKA @lanettecream on Twitter and found on the internetz blogging away at http://blog.testyredhead.com), I came across this very good article today by …
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Lessons Learned from Combining Exploratory Testing and Scripted Testing?

People sometimes talk about "scripted testing" and "Exploratory Testing" as if they are irreconcilable and impossible to combine. That doesn't make sense to me. I could see some a …
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Have you compared one #softwaretesting test design approach to another? If so, what results?

If so, what have you found? I feel strongly that short, focused, controlled experiments yield interesting findings that can be extremely valuable. As W. Edwards Deming said, "I …
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How to estimate a number of functional test cases

How to estimate a number of functional test cases based on the application UI controls and/or design model? For example, let's take a Windows Calculator application or a Notepad. I …
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How to get started with model based testing?

Hello, I would like to know if some of you are using model based testing and what they would recommend in order to get started? Best Regards Update: I would be interested to hea …
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What testing tool or method have you helped introduce at your company (and how has it helped)?

When I worked at my prior employer, I helped introduce applied statistics-based testing methods of test case design/selection. There are multiple variations of applied statistics- …
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Advice / Lessons Learned from Testing VMware Instances?

This is a pretty open-ended question for people who have had experience testing VMware instances. Our firm is moving from a pure SaaS model to a model that also supports custome …
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Where can I find the latest version of “the Exploratory Testing Dynamics Lists”?

I actually know the answer to this, and will post it in a day or two if no-one beats me to it, but thought it would be worth drawing people's attention to it. I really appreciate …
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What makes a good integration test?

I'm sure many of you have a lot of experience in writing lots of integration tests and that you also have run into some common pitfalls when performing integration testing. My que …

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