Exploratory Testing 3.0

[Authors’ note: Others have already made the point we make here: that exploratory testing ought to be called testing. In fact, Michael said that about tests in 2009, and James wrote a blog post in 2010 that seems to say that about testers. Aaron Hodder said it quite directly in 2011, and so did Paul Gerrard. While we have long understood and taught that all testing is exploratory (here’s an example of what James told one student, last year), we have not been ready to make the rhetorical leap away from pushing the term “exploratory testing.” Even now, we are […]