What is Exploratory testing?

Hi Shekhar,

Exploratory testing is also called adhoc testing, but in reality it's not completely
adhoc. Ad hoc testing is an unplanned, unstructured, may be even an impulsive
journey through the system with the intent of finding bugs. Exploratory
testing is simultaneous learning, test design, and test execution. In other
words, exploratory testing is any testing done to the extent that the tester
proactively controls the design of the tests as those tests are performed and
Testing Techniques 55 uses information gained while testing to design better tests. Exploratory
testers are not merely keying in random data, but rather testing areas that
their experience (or imagination) tells them are important and then going
where those tests take them.

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Sean Stewart14y ago
Exploratory Testing is an informal testing which is used to gain familiarity of the application. In this testing the domain exports will perform the testing on the application to explore the functionality since they do not have the proper requirement document support..
Satyapriya Nayak14y ago
Hi Shekhar,

Exploratory testing is also called adhoc testing, but in reality it's not completely
adhoc. Ad hoc testing is an unplanned, unstructured, may be even an impulsive
journey through the system with the intent of finding bugs. Exploratory
testing is simultaneous learning, test design, and test execution. In other
words, exploratory testing is any testing done to the extent that the tester
proactively controls the design of the tests as those tests are performed and
Testing Techniques 55 uses information gained while testing to design better tests. Exploratory
testers are not merely keying in random data, but rather testing areas that
their experience (or imagination) tells them are important and then going
where those tests take them.

Thanks