{"id":5203,"date":"2012-04-10T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/04\/10\/automatic-requirement-traceability-with-exploratory-testing\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T03:10:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T11:10:39","slug":"automatic-requirement-traceability-with-exploratory-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/automatic-requirement-traceability-with-exploratory-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic requirement traceability with Exploratory Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n My favorite feature of exploratory testing with Microsoft Test Manager<\/a> is automatic requirement traceability, that it automatically builds up my test plan as I perform my explorations. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n So let’s say that I have a backlog item that my team is working on and it is now ready to be tested. To perform exploratory testing on it, I launch Microsoft Test Manager and create a new empty test plan. This is how my Plan->Contents tab looks currently:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/span>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n Now I select the relevant backlog item and start exploring it, similar to the walkthrough here<\/a>. I launch my application, perform actions on it, take screenshots, add comments, create bugs and create test cases. I keep doing this for a while until I am confident that I have covered all the items in the acceptance criteria of the backlog item. After a few minutes of testing, this is how my exploratory testing window looks, I have created\u00a03 bugs and 5 test cases overall.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/span>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n Confident that I have covered everything, I click on ‘End testing’ which takes me back to Test Manager. Here, after viewing the summary of my exploratory test session, I go back to my test
plan, which was completely blank when we had started. This is how it looks now:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n \"\"<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/span>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n So while I was exploring my application a requirement based suite has been added to my test plan, consisting of all test cases that I created during my exploratory session. This is like a set of regression tests that can be used for verifying this feature in future test passes. As I go on exploring requirement work items, new suites will keep on getting added to my plan. In fact, If I had done my exploratory testing without the context of any work item, my test cases would have still been added to my test plan’s root suite. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n \u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n This saves me a lot of effort of writing test cases and then organizing them into a plan, since my test plan gets automatically built up while I perform my testing<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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