Exploratory and Manual Testing Questions

Focus on when and how to use manual exploratory testing to discover issues that automation can miss and how to integrate those findings into the overall quality strategy. Topics include session based testing and time boxed charters, heuristics and exploratory techniques for finding edge cases and error conditions, multi step and stateful user journeys, documenting and reproducing defects with clear steps expected versus actual results severity and impact, triage and prioritization with product and engineering, and converting high value exploratory discoveries into automated regression tests when appropriate.