Good Exploratory Testing Tactics for Taking Over Testing

Good Exploratory Testing Tactics for Taking Over Testing
In testing we have strategy - the ideas guiding our testing; logistics - getting things in place where testing can happen and tactics - the ways we test. These three are inseparable, yet our awareness of their existence varies. With repetition, patterns emerge in how we approach problems. In this talk, we focus on patterns coming out of repetition I experience.
Time and time again, I find myself joining a new team, to test a new application. I come with a solid foundation of contemporary exploratory testing and 25 years of collected experiences. What are the tactics of exploratory testing I find myself selecting from, starting with and how applying these tactics makes up the work? I expect to be contributing to a product from day 1 with increased scope until the day it is my time to move again.
Taking over testing - how exactly do I do that? And is the way I do it essentially different from the way you do it, when I start from a home ground of contemporary exploratory testing - emphasizing results, learning, agency and assuming programming is built into the testing we do in the modern world.

BIO
Maaret Pyhäjärvi is an exploratory tester extraordinaire with a day-job at Vaisala as Principal Test Engineer. She is an empirical technologist, a tester and a (polyglot) programmer, a catalyst for improvement, a speaker and an author, and a community facilitator. She has been awarded the two prestigious global testing awards, Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2016 (MIATPP) and EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award (2020), and selected as Top-100 Most Influential in ICT in Finland 2019, 2020 and 2021. She’s spoken at events in 25 countries delivering over 400 sessions. With 25 years of exploratory testing under her belt, she crafts her work role into a mix of hands-on testing and programming, and leading and enabling others. She leads TechVoices enabling new speakers, blogs at https://visible-quality.blogspot.fi and is the author of three books: Ensemble Programming Guidebook, Exploratory Testing and Strong-Style Pair Programming.