Automation Tools and Exploratory Testing: Can The First Support the Second

As a tester you might wonder if automated testing tools are capable of supporting exploratory testing. Based on her experience as a test engineer and an automated tools specialist, Mieke Gevers introduces the basics of exploratory testing and then discusses the support from and limits of automation tools when doing this type of testing. She demonstrates how automated testing used with exploratory testing can provide quality improvements and cost savings at the same time. Learn the benefits of automating exploratory testing while looking at several real-world success stories.

• What is exploratory testing and how is it used in practice
• The value of exploratory testing compared to scripted testing
• Automation tools used to support exploratory testing