These exercises support the September / October exploratory testing workshops.
You'll need a laptop, and your browser needs to suport flash. Test it here.
You'll get the most from these exercises if you explore them together. If you need a distraction, play with the puzzles at the bottom of the page.
Exercises – day 2
Machine A
Machine B
Machine C
Machine D
Machine E
Machine H
Machine J
Machine K
Machine M
Bring me a Rock Feedback 1, Feedback 2
Exercises – day 1
Examples
Bug-finding sim 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Mindstorms Colour Robot: in use | confirming expectations | exploring behaviours | .pdf of mindmaps of simulator: PCOs
Colour Sensor: in use | confirming expectations | exploring behaviours
Real-world behaviours
Getting passwords from a password manager
PHP's strtotime() considers 00-00-00 00:00:00 to be 1999-11-30
Real things
Web-based Generate Data by Ben Keen. Here's an unrestricted version on my server.
Andrew Brampton's Sequence Diagrams
Papa Parse (use demo page)
Raw – graphing tool by Density Design
References
Elisabeth Hendrickson's Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
Gojko Adzic's Bug Magnet
James Bach's PerlClip and a million-character counter string.
Rikard Edgren's Little Black Book on Test Design
Max Woolf's Naughty Strings GitHub repository
From workshop
Tools
Puzzles
People who write
Adam Knight: a-sisyphean-task.com
Ajay Balamurugadas: enjoytesting.blogspot.co.uk
Alan Richardson: eviltester.com
Amy Phillips: testingthemind.wordpress.com
Andy Glover: cartoontester.blogspot.com
Anne-Marie Charrett: mavericktester.com
Antony Marcano: antonymarcano.com/blog/
BJ Rollinson: www.testingmentor.com/imtesty/
Cem Kaner: kaner.com
Dan Ashby: danashby.co.uk
Edgren / Emilsson / Jansson: thetesteye.com
Elisabeth Hendrickson: testobsessed.com
Fiona Charles: quality-intelligence.blogspot.co.uk
Helena Jerret-Mae: hepainandgainofedwardbear.wordpress.com
Huib Schoots huibschoots.nl
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
Jean-Paul Varwijk: arborosa.org
Joep Schuurkes: testingcurve.wordpress.com
Jon Bach: jonbox.wordpress.com
Jonathan Kohl: kohl.ca
Juha Itkonen: www.soberit.hut.fi/jitkonen
Katrina Clokie: katrinatester.blogspot.co.uk
Maaret Pyhäjärvi visible-quality.blogspot.co.uk
Markus Gärtner: www.shino.de/blog
Michael Bolton: developsense.com
Mike Kelly: michaeldkelly.com
Pradeep Soundararajan moolya.com/blog
Robert Sabourin: amibug.com
Richard Bradshaw: www.thefriendlytester.co.uk
Rob Lambert: thesocialtester.co.uk
Scott Barber: perftestplus.com
Simon `Peter´ Schrijver: simonsaysnomore.wordpress.com
Simon Knight sjpknight.com/tag/testing/
Zeger van Hese: testsidestory.wordpress.com
James Lyndsay, Workroom Productions
@workroomprds, +447904158752, LinkedIn
I'm a test strategist with years of broad experience and an interest in adaptive approaches. If you want advice, or if you want me to work with you, I'd be delighted to have a chat. Get in touch.