Exploratory Testing

  • Recently, I was at a Testing Services company, participating in the pre-lims for the paper selection for a conference scheduled in Bangalore in November, this year. Being an over-punctual person, I was there at the venue much earlier than the event started. While waiting alone in a conference room where the papers were meant to

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  • After the confusion around not publishing Michael Bolton’s comment in response to my earlier post was sorted out, Michael has replied (thanks Michael!) with an elaborate post: All Testing is (not) Confirmatory, providing reasoning in favor of his concept of “Testing versus Checking”. Meanwhile, I had a discussion with Pradeep Soundararajan on the comment episode

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  • In Michael Bolton’s post on Testing vs Checking and the follow-up comments, he splits testing into exploratory testing and confirmatory testing (he’d rather call the latter as checking). I wasn’t convinced with this split-up and studied all his posts on this subject. I initially thought to leave a comment on his post but found it suitable

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