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Articles

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Taming 2000 Safari Tabs	whipping up a tiny tool, and the joy of burndown
Guiding Hands-off AI using Hands-on TDD	All sorts of stuff around our upcoming workshop at Agile Testing Days.
How I'm writing	Enabling experiences, exploration and change, rather than publication or narrative.
Handholds Framework	A Mnemonic Heuristic! After so many years!
Building a Bart	Building an avatar generator, as a tester.
New Year Wishes	I've been using StableDifusion to make New Year's cards. I used StableDiffusionWeb, which is currently free and requires no login. If you want to make some of your own, you should. You'll need a 'prompt'; a text description to guide the way
Publishing a Directory with Flask	How to serve python coverage metrics as an html page within replit.com
Working with Answers to Open Questions	Complicated answers are harder to work with. Here's how I cope.
Question Chaining	How I chain questions together, building, refining and sometimes wrecking) a model
Question Transformation 2 - Refocus	Refocus your Questions to match your purpose
Writing Tools	My handwrting and paper filing system gets worse, and most of what I write beyond jotting now goes via a keyboard. An MX Keys [https://www.logitech.com/en-gb/products/keyboards/mx-keys-wireless-keyboard.html] , generally. Here's my current set of tools, and their purposes: OmmWriter [https://ommwriter.com] – for
April stuff at Workroom Productions	Stuff on exploratory testing, new exercises, offers, peer conferences, and more
Exploration without Tools is Weak and Slow	An overdue rant: The days of hand-cranked exploration are done.
Teaching Exploratory Testing with Code	Concentrate on data rather than tooling and syntax
LEWT: The London Exploratory Workshop in Testing	Rules of LEWT
Acid Test	Peer conference. Not safe. Exciting though, and full of lessons.
Making the RasterReveal Exercise	Building an exercise involves much wrangling and working around unexpected behaviours.
Teeny Tiny Test Harness	console.assert is my go-to teeny tiny test harness for JavaScript
Exploring without Requirements	Requirements are helpful rather than crucial
Testing Reveals Requirements	The closer you look, the better you see.

Videos

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MoT Exploratory Testing Week 2021	I use Python to find surprises (for me) in the Python interpreter.
Wicked Problems	Testing contains several "Wicked" problems, whose resolutions are unclear until they are found.

Outlines and Abstracts

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Hands-on, Tooled-up Testing	A full day workshop on exploring systems with data
Keynote eXtreme	A keynote with a random title. And nobody – including the speaker – knows who speaker will be.
Questions, Questions	This interactive workshop will help you ask the right testing questions, of the right people, at the right time.
Teaching Exploratory Testing with Code	Concentrate on data rather than tooling and syntax
Wrangling, Debugging and Testing	Do we spend months getting our systems to a point where we can test? We do. Here's why, and what we can do about it.
Wrangling, Debugging and Testing (conference talk abstract)	It would be good to recognise that many testers spend most of their time not testing (in the sense of finding new useful info), but making their SUTs work at all.

Papers

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Exploratory Testing Notes

Very rough notes from me as a younger consultant

Exercises

To see collections of exercises, go to the exercises page

Exercise: Becoming Coverage	A game to play with colleagues to understand coverage more deeply.
Exercise: Other People's Code	Consider your own code through the lens of other people's code.
Raster Reveal	Reveal pictures to see what is in them, as an exercise in exploration.