This page links to the hands-on exercises we'll be using in the tutorial.
Prepared for: Getting a Grip on Exploratory Testing, Manchester 19-20 November 2015
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 and split into parts A | B | C | D
Machine H
Machine D
Machine C
Machine F
Machine E
Machine G
Machine J2
Machine K
Machine M
Mindstorms 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.
Freemind 0.8.1 - java executable.
Freemind 0.8.1 - Directory
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
DONWLOAD! 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.
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: qualitytree.com / testobsessed.com
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
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
Robert Sabourin: amibug.com
Pradeep Soundararajan moolya.com/blog
Rob Lambert thesocialtester.co.uk
Scott Barber: perftestplus.com
Zeger van Hese: testsidestory.wordpress.com
BBTestAssistant
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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