This page links to the hands-on exercises we'll be using in the tutorial.
Prepared for: Getting a Grip on Exploratory Testing, MoneySupermarket, 18-19 February 2016
Exercises are enabled for about three months.
The 'exercises' are designed for exploration during the class. If you're browsing through this before the event, please resist the temptation - you won't get as much out of the workshop. However, you could explore the 'puzzles' instead.
Most of these exercises are Flash movies. They're safe to install, and they work on a wide range of platforms, but they need Flash. Most laptops have this installed by default, but please use the test machine (in the 'Support' section below) to check that the rest will work on your setup.
Machine A
Machine B
Machine Q
Machine H
Machine D
Machine C
Machine F
Machine E
Machine K
Machine M
Weinberg's Black BoxMindstorms Colour Robot: in use | confirming expectations | exploring behaviours | .pdf of mindmaps of simulator: PCOs
Colour Sensor: in use | confirming expectations | exploring behaviours
Million-to-one: BIMJW
Robert Sabourin's collection of - session notes from different testers.
The testers were using FreeMind 0.8
Monte Carlo thing
Parameter file
Web-based Generate Data by Ben Keen. Here's an unrestricted version on my server.
Raw – graphing tool by Density Design
Go to http://www.flash.com/ if you need to update your player.
Puzzle 1
Puzzle 2
Puzzle 3
Puzzle 4
Puzzle 5
Puzzle 7
Puzzle 8
Puzzle 9
Puzzle 10 (not tested...)
Puzzle 11
Puzzle 12
Puzzle 13
Double Session Timer
Adventures in Session-Based Testing - local - remote
Introduction to Exploratory Testing
ET Notes 1 - Scripting and Exploring
ET Notes 2 - The importance of being judgemental
ET Notes 4 - Why Exploration has a place in any Strategy
Software testing diagram 1 and variants
Excel spreadsheet to track exploratory tests
The Big List of Naughty Strings – text and gitHub
In the directory input_text you'll find
- ascii.txt: 256 bytes, values 0-255. Twice.
- characters.txt: Valid characters typically accessible from a UK keyboard, and from a
phone.- 10tothe6.txt: A million characters, labelled like perlclip
- pairs.txt: Byte pairs (use with caution)
In the directory Pictures, you'll find various self-labelled sizes and formats of pictures.
Here are some list of testing conferences. The relatively-current open-source testingconferences.org, TesHuddle's list and testevents.com
Adam Knight: a-sisyphean-task.com
Ajay Balamurugadas: enjoytesting.blogspot.co.uk
Alan Richardson: eviltester.com
BJ Rollinson: www.testingmentor.com/imtesty/
Cem Kaner: kaner.com
Edgren / Emilsson / Jansson: thetesteye.com
Elisabeth Hendrickson: testobsessed.com
Huib Schoots huibschoots.nl
Ilari Aegerter www.ilari.com
James Bach: satisfice.com
James Lyndsay: workroom-productions.com
James Thomas: qahiccupps.blogspot.co.uk
James Whittaker: blogs.msdn.com/b/jw_on_tech
Jean-Paul Varwijk: arborosa.org
Joep Schuurkes: testingcurve.wordpress.com
Jon Bach: jonbox.wordpress.com
Jonathan Kohl: kohl.ca
Juha Itkonen: www.soberit.hut.fi/jitkonen
Maaret Pyhäjärvi visible-quality.blogspot.co.uk
Markus Gärtner: www.shino.de/blog
Michael Bolton: developsense.com
Mike Kelly: michaeldkelly.com
Pradeep Soundararajan moolya.com/blog
Robert Sabourin: amibug.com
Rob Lambert: thesocialtester.co.uk
Scott Barber: perftestplus.com
Simon `Peter´ Schrijver: simonsaysnomore.wordpress.com
Zeger van Hese: testsidestory.wordpress.com
BBTestAssistant
BugMagnet
Burpsuite
Cygwin
DataGraph
Fiddler2
Firebug
Grinder
Holodeck
HyperSnap
iMacros
JMeter
OmniOutliner
Parallels
perlclip
Process Explorer
Process Monitor
RapidReporter
Raw
Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
Selenium
SnapzPro
Spector
TestExplorer
UnixUtils
VMWare
Watir
Email James
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