These exercises support the September exploratory testing workshop at FiSTB.
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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.
If you want to influence the direction of the workshop, use this short form.
Exploring Behaviour:
Discover and decribe this
Emergent Test Design:
Million Years
second half reasonable | vast
Discovering State:
Weinberg Machine
Parsing an interface:
Density Design's RAW graphing tool
Andrew Brampton's JS Sequence Diagram tool
Ben Keen's Generate Data. Here's an unrestricted version on my server.
Software Diagnosis:
Diagnosis III
Searching for Meaning:
Attacks and exploits – exercise
Real-world:
Bulk Testing and Visualisation:
Examples:
Bug-finding sim 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Colour Sensor: in use | confirming expectations | exploring behaviours
Puzzles:
11 ... 12 ... 13 ... 15 ... 17 ... 22
Helpful things
Jerry Weinberg's books – I used An Introduction to General Systems Thinking as the source for Weinberg 01
Elisabeth Hendrickson's Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
Gojko Adzic's Bug Magnet
James Bach's PerlClip
Rikard Edgren's Little Black Book on Test Design
Max Woolf's Naughty Strings GitHub repository
VulnHub's list of resources
Hack This - exercises by technologies
Hack This Site – more exercises (not on VulnHub)
People who write
Adam Knight: a-sisyphean-task.com
Ajay Balamurugadas: enjoytesting.blogspot.co.uk
Alan Richardson: eviltester.com
Amy Phillips: testingthemind.wordpress.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