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Articles

Here are some recent articles. For a more complete list, go to the full list of articles.

Weird Word 1	Something odd and oddly-consistent in search and dictionaries
Function is easier than Fit	Comparative experiments in LLM coding and editing (p.s. we cheated).
Thinking in Client	Local terminology takes priority
Submit!	Who, me?
Ephemeral Tooling	Tools you throw away? Scandalous.
Judging by Content, Delivery, and Bravery	How I Judge Talks
Exploration Without Interaction	Exploring by observing and thinking.
Unix Tools for Testers	How commandline tools help testers. Mostly a list leading to a series.
Current LLM tech stack	Stuff I use to generate stuff
Learning with an LLM	An LLM is a powerful, flawed and delightful study tool.
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

Videos

For a more-detailed list, go to the videos page

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

For a more-detailed list, go to the outlines page

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

For a more-detailed list, go to the papers page

Exploratory Testing Notes

Very rough notes from me as a younger consultant

Exercises

To see collections of exercises, go to the exercises page

`sort` Exercises	Play with `sort` to discover its capabilities
Dealing with Disaster	Thinking through what can go wrong, and practicing one's attitude and response.
Diff Tool Exercises	Play with `diff` – solutions available.
Exercise – Cost of Trouble	Exploring how we shape decisions about testing in the light what we imagine we might find.
Exercise – Power of Variety	Exploring testing decisions, thinking about the influence of our possible approaches.
Exercise: Abstract Judgement	Judging an abstract, and thinking about judgement
Exercise: Becoming Coverage	A game to play with colleagues to understand coverage more deeply.
Exercise: Changing Input Mechanisms	Play with one field and several input mechanisms.
Exercise: Exploring Fixed Input	Fixed at build time, still explorable
Exercise: How do You Explore a System?	A swift thinking exercise – 15 minutes
Exercise: Notation for Puzzle15	Exploring Puzzle 15, while watching how we keep track of what we see and do.
Exercise: Other People's Code	Consider your own code through the lens of other people's code.
Exercise: Three Things	Explore the differences between several things which pass the same tests.
Exercise: You vs the Machine	Find your own exploration
Getting to a Great Abstract	Take your idea to a better place