Exploring as Part of Your Test Strategy
Two Sides of Testing, discussed how testing is really two things: checking and exploring. Checking the answers questions the extent to which the software does what you expect. Exploring uncovers risks, turning up answers to questions no one could have thought to ask in advance.
When your test strategy includes both checking and exploring and the team acts on the information that testing reveals, the result is incredibly high-quality software.
Real-Life Examples
Consider a story from Atomic Object in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The first time I visited the company, I was greeted by one of the programmers, Karlin Fox. Karlin took me over to a workstation and introduced me to a system that they had recently ...
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