Welcome to episode 22 of the Testing Peers podcast. This week the Peers tackle exploratory testing.After the important check-in on David’s potato harvest, Simon asks us if our curiosity has ever led to us breaking anything – which eventually leads us to the main event.What do we mean by exploratory testing?How does it differ from ad-hoc testing?What skills are required?How can we tackle the KPI/Metrics conversation?Have we been exploratory testing without explicitly calling it that?The Peers mention a lot of really useful resources as well:Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing – Elisabeth HendricksonExploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design – James WhittakerExploratory Testing with the Team, a Journey Worth Taking – Maaike BrinkhofFive Years of Mob Testing, Hello to Ensemble Testing – Maaret PyhäjärviTestBuddy – Simon TomesA new model for test strategies… (An update to the Heuristic Test Strategy Model) – Dan AshbyWe really appreciate all the feedback that we have received and invite you to get in touch with us:[email protected] (https://twitter.com/testingpeers)LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/testing-peers)Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/testingpeers/)Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TestingPeers)If you like what we do and are able to, please visit our Patreon to explore how you could support us going forwards: https://www.patreon.com/testingpeersSaffron QA is a provider of recruitment and consultancy services, exclusively for the software testing industry.You can find out more at https://saffronqa.co.uk/  or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/saffron-qa/We’ve found Ben from Saffron QA to be a great partner who has signed up to the vision and values that we have set out in our Testing Peers charter and we hope that you will take the time to visit and connect with him.Support the show

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