Testing: The compass for creative exploration
summary
Project runs a long experiment: book 2.5-hour biweekly sessions where the first 30 minutes teach one exploratory tool and two hours execute test charters and debrief. Teams of about 11 people in a room generate ideas, use charters to record what was tested, and iterate next sessions. Built a toolbox of approaches (breaking news, tool‑based testing, CSI, testing personas, testing variables), scaled the practice to other teams, and reports fewer late discovery defects and smoother system verification. testing charters
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 3:24Connect the dots puzzle
- 5:32Story of two parallel worlds
- 12:57Excel experiment for testing
- 14:22First exploratory workshop
- 20:44What is creativity?
- 21:52Exploratory testing defined
- 26:46Structured exploratory sessions
- 29:58Team's testing toolbox
- 33:12Creativity as the key asset
- 35:19Scaling the approach
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