What is the difference between Usability testing and
Exploratory Testing?

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What is the difference between Usability testing and Exploratory Testing?..

Answer / cmjigalur

Usability Testing:Testing the user friendliness(look &
feel) of an application.
Exploratory Testing:When there is no sufficent
documentation about the application,we need to understand
the application,write testcases & execute the testcases.
i.e,Exploring the application.

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What is the difference between Usability testing and Exploratory Testing?..

Answer / rajkumargholve

Usability Testing- Testing done to determine the ease with
which a software application is 1)Easy to Learn 2)Easy to
Use 3) Easy to memorise. Usability Testing also involves
testing of Aesthetic aspects of product (Look & Feel).
Usability Testing is imporant as it demotivates the user
from using an application.

Exploratory Testing- Type of testing in which the
experiance of the tester is used to anticipate what defects
might be there in the system. In this type of testing there
is less focus on documentation & more focus is on test
execution. This type of testing is done when there is no
formal Requirment Documentation exists.

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What is the difference between Usability testing and Exploratory Testing?..

Answer / antony

Usability Testing: Test the user friendliness of the
application that is the GUI of the application.

Exploratory Testing: It is an informal way of
testing,without any formal test documentations. The tester
no need to know the application under test, while testing
the tester will come to know the functionality of the
application.

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What is the difference between Usability testing and Exploratory Testing?..

Answer / murugesh(corporate trainer)

Usability Testing: it is a testing to check the User
Friendly of the system.
Exploratory Testing: Due to lack of documentation, the
testing team is depending on available documents,
discussions with other in a testing team,internet Browsing,
Previous experience to understand the customer requirements,
Contacting the client or customer who specifies the
requirements.

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What is the difference between Usability testing and Exploratory Testing?..

Answer / madhu patchala

usability testing i the combination of user interface testing and manual user interface testing is called a usability testing.
user interface testing: in this testing tester test the user friendliness of the software build screens and
1)look and feel
2)easy to use
3)easy interface
3)speed in performanse


manual user interface testing: every organisation are maintain help document on depends upon the organisation rules and regulation so the tester study the previous help document test the completeness correctness of that doccument is called manual user inter face testing

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What is the difference between Usability testing and Exploratory Testing?..

Answer / madhu patchala

usability testing i the combination of user interface testing and manual user interface testing is called a usability testing.
user interface testing: in this testing tester test the user friendliness of the software build screens and
1)look and feel
2)easy to use
3)easy interface
3)speed in performanse


manual user interface testing: every organisation are maintain help document on depends upon the organisation rules and regulation so the tester study the previous help document test the completeness correctness of that doccument is called manual user inter face testing


exploratory testing:tester has no knowledge of the application and no previous knowledge of that domain that time tester has learning and at the same tome testing on that application is called exploratory testing

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What is the difference between Usability testing and Exploratory Testing?..

Answer / rameshdulam

usability: comfort level of the user
Exploratory: take one requirment based on that keep
exploring the application.

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