1

Timebox the Session

• Set the period of time for the exploratory testing session. This period should be no less than a half an hour and no greater than two hours.
• Set the goals for the session. Start a session log.

2

Meet Persona Expectations

• Select a persona from the set of published personas.
• Run through the existing functionality to make sure persona expectations are met.

3

Envision New Goals

• Examine the challenges the persona faces. If the challenges might be too difficult to overcome, open a new bug or add new scenario or quality of service entries to the scenario list or requirements list.
• Make changes to existing scenarios or quality of service requirements and track the changes to appropriately reflect the new understanding.
• Look for new goals or missing functionality necessary to fulfill the product vision. Add new scenarios or quality of service requirement entries to the scenario list.
• Look for quality of service concerns and add new quality of service requirements to the quality of service requirements list.

New scenarios are added to the scenario list.

New requirements are added to the quality of service requirements list.

A test result is observed during exploratory testing that uncovered a bug in the product.