30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts

5 min readMar 27, 2018

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Explore Galore! 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts

As an exploratory tester, there’s no doubt that finding problems is important. But exploratory testing is way more than that. We know this and sometimes we need to hold the mirror up to remind ourselves. Take a step back and remember, you’re not just a bug magnet!

From Tester to Test Coach, a Voyage into the Unknown

I believe that the evolving role of a tester is to advocate for and encourage the right testing to be done rather than performing the testing activity. Attendees to this session at TestBash Dublin with Rob Meaney will get an insight into the many challenges of taking on a test coaching role but also the potential rewards.

Introduction to Complexity and Cynefin for Software Testers

Dave Snowden’s work in complexity theory seems to have really caught the attention of many in the software testing community of late, but why? Is Cynefin a tool? A model? What do people mean when they speak about complexity theory? More importantly, why should this matter to software testers? In this experiential workshop at TestBash Netherlands, Ben and Martin will introduce some of the basic concepts of Cynefin, but with a special focus on how it can be immensely interesting and useful to software testing professionals.

MoT Meetups

Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups. Find or start an MoT meetup.

Philadelphia — Using Docker for Testing Workshop — 4th April

For this meetup, Asaf Peleg and Jason Stamis will discuss using docker in your pipeline and how it can also be utilized for testing needs. We would like to try to make this an interactive meetup. So bring your laptop along with you and get docker setup and running beforehand.

The Club

We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.

Introduction to VR Testing Masterclass — Further Discussion

We had the awesome Masterclass introducing us to VR Testing with Syed Ali. A lot of us associate VR with gaming but it has a vast array of other possibilities. I found it interesting to hear how testing fits in with VR. If we didn’t get to your questions or you’d like to continue the conversation, why not ask on The Club.

Blogs from TestBash Brighton 2018

There have been so many great blogs post TestBash that we’d started a discussion on The Club to gather them in one place. Have you read or written a blog post about TestBash Brighton? Feel free to add it to the growing list!

The Software Testing Pyramid

So, I read a thing recently about a Test Pyramid. It was quite long and irrelevant to my situation. I got bored and overwhelmed. This is not to say that ‘that’ Test Pyramid was useful to someone in their software testing context, but to me it wasn’t. But it gave me an idea for my own Test Pyramid.

Community Posts

Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.

Mission Accomplished — Danny Dainton

Last Friday, I fulfilled one of my own personal goals by giving my first ever talk at a Conference. This wasn’t just any conference, this was at the place where it all started for me — This was the conference that ignited my passion and my love for Software Testing nearly 5 years ago.

The Importance of Building a Good Community of Practice — Nation Of Software Testers

Within every organisation, I think we can all agree that ‘collaboration’ is key to the success of any project or initiative. As organisations grow, new teams are created and existing teams fragment from each other, this is natural and I doubt that will change.

Testing Blogs

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Why do Testers become Scrum Masters? — Testing is Believing
Using the Turnkey Linux VM for Tracks Testing — Evil Tester
Feedback — few thoughts — DragonQA
You are not your tools — Code without Rules
Pass The Piper — Rosie Land
What I learnt by NOT going to TestBash! — Testing the Waterhouse
What is a test plan? — Kavliwashere.com
Adventures In Management: A Beginner’s Guide — QuackQuack
Real life TDD with Spring — Test Case Analysis part II — Everyday Unit Testing
People over Processes — Rose
Getting started with Cucumber in Java — A 10 minute tutorial
Codemash 2018 Recap — g33klady’s adventures in software testing
Results from No Product Owner Experiment — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball

Testing Podcasts

MoT host various podcasts, but here is a selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.

Blockchain Special — PerfBytes
Ep 99: All the world’s a stage — Let’s Talk About Tests, Baby
Cafe 044: Chatting with Microsoft MVP Stefan Baumgartner — PurePerformance Cafe
058 The State of CI, CD & Observability: Why you don’t have to build it yourself — PurePerformance

Testing Chatter

We keep a close eye on our two slack groups — testers.chat and our MoT Slack. This is what they’ve been sharing.