Enable Exploratory Modelling
No matter the system under test, modelling is more broadly concerned with enquiring, applying and informing, and is closely aligned to evolving your teams’ intelligences. This enquiring, applying and informing helps focus team intelligences and synchronizes effort & motivations around test design and generation.
To benefit from team intelligences around test design and generation, be sure first to make early investigations which will ultimately transform good individual contributions into aligned collaborative effort. Such early investigations of a system with aligned collaborative effort, be it around test design and generation of data combinations, user interface journeys or exposing complexity, the outcome enables exploratory modelling, one that’s iterative.
Stepping back let’s define exploratory modelling relative to the process of enquiring, applying and informing. Around enquiring orbits the idea of imperfect sources of knowledge from which a perspective can be decided as a leaping off point. The main question being: what are your main concerns?
Then comes modelling out that enquiry from which you can adjust test cases according to the coverage to reveal complexity, ambiguity, or gaps. This helps flush out anomalies and challenges the sources of knowledge to produce better run results and test execution.
So best practice includes the need to enquire, model, inform and apply to derive effective test design and generation that suits the diversity of thinking within your team.
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