what is Ad-hoc and Exploratory Testing

Ad-hoc Testing

1. Ad hoc testing is a commonly used term for software testing performed without planning and documentation.
2. The tests are intended to be run only once, unless a defect is discovered.
3. Adhoc testing is the least formal test method.
4. The strength of ad hoc testing is that important defects can be found quickly.
5. A creative and informal way of testing the software
6. Conducted without any understanding of the software before testing it
7. Not conducted based on formal test plans or test cases
8. Performed by Testers
9. Performed on a Stable application or product.
10. Behavior of the application when the same functionality is executed multiple times.
11. Behavior of the application when the previous and next screen navigation is performed more than once.

Approach that is most useful when there are:

• Inadequate specifications.
• Severe time pressure.
• This is performed to verify the:
• Stability of the application

1. This type of testing is done without any formal Test Plan or Test Case creation.
2. Testing the application randomly is called ad-hoc testing.
3. The way in which end user use the application is totally different the way we do testing, as a test engineers we don’t want any user to find any defects, so we test application randomly.

When to do the Ad-hoc testing

• Don’t do ad-hoc testing soon after smoke testing.
• After the formal testing if we have time and we have some creative idea than we can go for ad-hoc testing.

Exploratory Testing

• The plainest definition of exploratory testing is test design and test execution at the same time.
• Exploratory tests are not defined in advance and carried out precisely according to plan
• Understand the application write test cases and do testing. Whenever there will be no requirements we go for exploratory Testing.
• It means without requirements we have to test the application.

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