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Automated testing is an excellent idea and everyone should do it. But a good test strategy involves knowing when to automate and when to get your hands dirty with some manual testing. After all, you can’t automate everything and actually working with your software as a user gives you an important test perspective. Let’s not forget as well that so many of us (even developers!) have to “check if something works”, “send a +1”, or decide “is this ok?” as a part of our weekly work.

Don’t fall asleep though – manual testing doesn’t have to mean boring repetition. In fact, manual testing can be exciting, revitalizing and helpful for the project and the software quality. And everyone has to do it at some point or another – so it’s worth working on making it better.

In this talk, Alex presents another “tool” for your testing toolbox – exploratory testing. It’s a systematic but lightweight method of testing without using manual testing scripts. She starts by explaining why this kind of testing should be done at least sometimes in every project before getting into the details of how it works.

To round off the session, she’ll introduce session-based test management – a good way of managing exploratory testing so that you know what has been tested and what is still to do.

If you think that manual testing is always boring, if you think that testing is just “clicking around” or if you want to improve your standard of manual testing, then come along to this session.

I gave this talk at ECNA 2014 and it received good feedback from the participants.

Presenter: Alex Schladebeck