mathan_vel

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• Jun 10th, 2009

 

Yes, i done both the Exploratory and Specification-Driven Testing in my career

I assigned for a project, which is a new Technology "Cold Fusion", Testing methodology is same but the technology different, I learned with different ideas and done testing.

Exploratory testing as "a style of software testing that emphasizes the personal freedom and responsibility of the individual tester to continually optimize the quality of his/her work by treating test-related learning, test design, test execution, and test result interpretation as mutually supportive activities that run in parallel throughout the project.While the software is being tested, the tester learns things that together with experience and creativity generates new good tests to run.

Learning a New domain and technology,learn and test the software is good practice for exploratory testing.


Specification-driven testing aims to test the functionality of software according to the applicable requirements.Thus, the tester inputs multiple data into, and only sees the outputs from, the test object. This level of testing usually requires thorough test cases to be provided to the tester, who then can simply verify that for a given inputs, the output values (or behavior), either "is" or "is not" the same as the expected value specified in the test case.

Specification-driven testing done by Automating the test cases. here set of inputs are parameterized(Excel sheets) and driven and verified the Expected results through different behaviour.