Go Find What We May Have Missed!

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Exploratory testing frames the assignment: React frontend plus real and fake backends, so take control of API responses and see what breaks. Runs the app against OpenWeatherMap API and a mock server with stubs, discovers UI typo ("sunshine" vs "sunrise"), timezone assumptions, city lookup returning the wrong city for a postal code, tolerant typo handling, Kelvin-to-Celsius conversion bug, and missing icons. Argues for combining artifact automation with performance-style exploration and testing across architecture layers.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:37Two kinds of testing
3. 5:05Building testing teams
4. 7:12Hands-on testing
5. 17:04Testing beyond app
6. 19:55Summary

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