Difference Between Adhoc Testing & Exploratory Testing?
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Answer / yamini thakur
Adhoc testing is the testing where you explore the
application, whithout any functionality specific, you do it
in Random Manner. Need not to maintain any documentation
for it. Just you use the application and try to find out
any problems which is occuring. That is why Adhoc Testing
is avoided.
Exploratory Testing is the Testing where you try to explore
the application functionality and find out the issues. When
you find out the issues it should map with the requirement
and functionality where it went wrong and need to update in
the deliverable and test case documents.
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Answer / anu
Adhoc testing requires creative ideas. This testing is done
randomly with creative scenarios and using these creative
scenarios we test the application.
In this type of testing, we will have the knowledge of the
application.
In this type of testing test cases are written when the
defect is found.
Exploratory Testing is learning cum testing process.
In this test cases are not written.
In Exploratory testing, we explore the application and also
we do the testing. we don't have requirements specification
document, or else we don't have time to understand the
requirements specification or very complex to interpret.
we can go ahead and fallow the below steps for exploratory
testing:
1. we would go ahead and execute the previous testcases
being written by some person.
2.I would communicate with the test engineer, developer, and
Bussiness Analyst who have already worked on this application.
3. I would understand based on my previous domain knowledge.
We use exploratory charter for this testing.....
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Answer / kishore chouki
In exploratory testing, software is treated as specification. It is then methodically explored feature by feature with the help of black box testing. It is a process of simultaneous learning, test design and test execution.
Adhoc testing though sounds similar, has a different objective. With adhoc testing domain experts can test critical areas of applications to decide if the test coverage and quality of test cases produced is sufficient to discover the high priority bugs.
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Answer / ratz
after reading through the whole set we just come to find
out that actually there is no difference between
exploratory and adhoc testing. both have little or minimal
documentation. both are a defect testing process with the
intent of finding bugs. we are exploring the product in
both the tests.
the only thing i dont understand is why are we trying to
find difference when actually the words exploratory or
random or adhoc can be used interchanably. to add to this
many companies currently are doing this. is this because
the interviewers are hell bent on knowing the difference
that we are trying to come up with the differences? please
explain
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Answer / dheivanai
Adhoc Testing :
This type of testing is done without any formal Test
Plan or Test Case creation. Adhoc Testing helps in deciding
the scope and duration of the various other testing and it
also helps testers in learning the application prior
starting with any other testing.
Exploratory Testing :
This testing is similar to the adhoc testing and is
done in order to learn/explore the application.
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Answer / mlprao
Adhoc Testing:Testing carried out informally,no formal test
preparation takes place,no recognixed test design technique
is used, there are no expectations for results and
guidelines for the test execution activity.
Exploratory Testing:Is a approach in whic testers r
involved in minimum planning and maxmium execution.
The test design and test execution activities are performed
in parallel typically without formally documenting the test
conditions,test cases or test scripts.
Useful when there are no or poor specifications and when
time is severly limited
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Answer / santosh
exploratory testing is often taken to mean acreative
informal software test that is not based on formal test
plans or test cases testers may be learning the software as
they it
Similar to exploratory testing but tester will learn before
going to test is adhoc testing
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Answer / rachana
AD HOC TESTING-:TESTING THE PRODUCT WITHOUT FOLLOWING ANY
TEST SPECIFICATIONS BY FOLLOWING FUNCTIONALITY OF THE
PRODUCTS.ITS DONE BY DOMAIN EXPERTS.
EXPLORATORY TESTING-:TESTING THE PRODUCT WITHOUT FOLLOWING
ANY TEST SPECIFICATIONS AND WITHOUT FOLLOWING
FUNCTIONALITY .
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Adhoc testing:
If there is no proper testplan at that time
we can perform adhoc testing.It has some sample test cases.
Exploratory testing:
If there is no test plan we can study
the SRS (Requirements documents) at that time,and
simulteneously we can perform testing.This is commonly
called as exploratory testing
Muralidharan
dharanmu@yahoo.com
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Answer / pankaj kumar
in Adhoc testing we test the software randomly and in this
testing test cases are required.but in exploratory testing
we test the software randomly there is no need of test
cases.this is the main difference.
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