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Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

It’s Time to Automate Your Exploratory Testing

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Exploratory testing (ET) is a great complement to traditional test approaches. Testing professionals often see ET as an approach for manual testing. However, trying to organize ET from a test process perspective can be a challenge. There is an important question to ask—and answer: Is exploratory testing compatible with test automation? Jim Trentadue explores how automated test cases can be designed to include provisions for exploratory testing. Examples of this are data used in input fields, navigating various paths in your application, encountering unexpected active windows in the system under test, interfacing to other systems, or intermittent data injection. The goal is to wrap a level of structure around ET using test automation and ultimately produce more and better exploratory scenarios than would otherwise be possible. Each automated test result reports on the findings from your exploratory tests, allowing the tester to evaluate his efforts more readily and take action more rapidly. This is the time to explore automating your exploratory testing.

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Jim Trentadue has more than seventeen years of experience as a coordinator/manager in the software testing field. Jim’s various career roles in testing have focused on test execution, automation, management, environment management, standards deployment, and test tool implementation. In the area of offshore testing, Jim has worked with multiple large firms to develop and coordinate cohesive relationships. As a guest speaker at the University of South Florida’s software testing class, Jim mentors students on the testing industry and trends for future job searches and continued training. Most recently, Jim has worked at testing solutions companies, focusing on quality management, test automation, manual testing, UAT and test data management.