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Exploratory Testing Explained 4/16/03. James Bach copyright 2002-2003, James Bach Exploratory software Testing is a powerful approach, yet widely misunderstood. In some situations, it can be orders of magnitude more productive than scripted Testing . All testers practice some form of Exploratory Testing , unless they simply don't create tests at all. Yet few of us study this approach, and it doesn't get much respect in our field. This attitude is beginning to change as companies seek ever more agile and cost effective methods of developing software. Among the hardest things to explain is something that everyone already knows.

3 In this view of ET, virtually all testing performed by human testers is exploratory to some degree.This view treats ET as a thought process infusing much of …

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