• Testing Resources

  last modified February 28 by k0s

Here's some resources that may help during exploratory testing:

Bug Reports 

Websites

  • Black Box Software Testing Course, by Dr. Cem Kaner & James Bach. http://www.testingeducation.org/BBST/index.html
    • Good for learning testing strategy, and how testing fits within the organization. For example, what's functional testing? Domain testing? Stress testing? Flow testing? When should you use automated testing, and when should you use manual testing? etc., etc.
    • Bad on time; videos are long, and will take considerable time to watch.

Papers

Blog Posts

  • "Exploratory Testing: More Than Superficial Bug Hunting", by Jonathan Kohl. His blog is here. You may have to scroll for the correct post.
  • "Lightning Talk on Emotions and Oracles", by Michael Bolton. http://www.developsense.com/blog/archive/2007_05_01_archive.html
    • Great look at how manual testing is different than automated testing. Quick, run-on-its-own presentation. 

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