Teaching #ContemporaryExploratoryTesting with AI today.
What we did:
- Started with a repo with application code
- Tested remote control by creating list of participants while doing introductions
- Generated a list of features by access to code
- Generated a list of bugs (11) by access to code
- Installed playwright and playwright agents
- Generated a list of bugs (21) by access to the UI
Going back to a mandate levels model I used in building up teams with two different mandate levels at previous place of work.
#ExploratoryTesting has always been an idea about increasing agency in testing by keeping things together that should stay together (design - execution), and #ContemporaryExploratoryTesting was adding automation and deciding.
A lot of our salary models are based on ideas of having beginners in low mandate roles.
@maaikees I look at plenty of people who do work as test automation experts, and they get the chance of doing testing. In fact, I observe that some of them get all things testing done while creating automation.
In creating a world where automation would no longer mean giving up something on testing, I have been discussing #ContemporaryExploratoryTesting to differentiate from what I see too much: automators who don't know how to test; testers who don't know how to automate.
A test colleague with a few years of experience turns out to be "most wanted" this week. Three projects have offered her a job, asking if she could start next week even. The interesting phenomena is that while she is most wanted, others without her personality characteristics may not be.
We talk about demand for skilled people, but we don't do so great growing folks like her I frame with #ContemporaryExploratoryTesting.
One of my colleagues read my #ContemporaryExploratoryTesting book, currently holding my Foundations of Exploratory Testing (in contemporary frame). She liked it, and was the first person to energetically come to me explaining what she learned, and what insights it gave her on how she tests.
I appreciate the world for her.
Had this conversation of "testing does not improve quality" and how the two of us disagreed on it with a colleague. First of all, neither of us would test just to produce information that no one acts on. The information and doing something with it are paired. Second, just existing in a team, holding space for quality makes people address things you would tell them about.
Yet another of those things where our thinking is that #ContemporaryExploratoryTesting is different.
Maaret Pyhäjärvi
Maaret Pyhäjärvi
