Testing Competence: Scripted Testing Versus Exploratory Testing

Abstract

Automation of software testing is a complex problem. Some of the developing organizations for software product continue to shrink rapidly. One of the reasons behind is the testing strategy adopted by the testers, which sorts most of the gap. Today, most of the testers adopt scripted testing as a strict testing strategy and emphasis minimum or no stress on exploratory testing. Scripted testing surely has some advantages but suffers from monotonous way of testing where as exploratory testing is a free style of testing and allows discovering of new problems. It influences our domain knowledge and helps in getting deeper insights of software product by employing human creativity. This paper presents the importance of ensuring a fine balance between both the ways of testing to increase the effectiveness of testing function.