Comments on: Be an Explorer! http://selenadelesie.com/2009/12/16/be-an-explorer/ People. Learning. Organizations. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:07:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: <img src='http://selenadelesie.com/wp-content/plugins/rpx/images/twitter.png'/> Melissa Copley http://selenadelesie.com/2009/12/16/be-an-explorer/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Melissa Copley Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:39:55 +0000 http://selenadelesie.com/?p=498#comment-13 YES! I am an explorer and I LOVE IT. It is very much a part of my personality -- occasionally to the point of annoyance for my husband. I work at Atomic Object and we're starting to make this part of our new projects. It compliments our TDD practices and supports our large automated test suites with real user interaction examination and exposes subjective issues as well as all kinds of weird & crazy interaction issues. No project should be exposed to end users without someone exploring it and evaluating how the user is going to perceive (and break) the software. For this reason I find that personas are one of my favorite resources for creating test paths from. They bring me all those things you listed as currently missing about not being "on the hunt". It's so thrilling! Thanks for writing so passionately about such an valuable practice. It really does need more exposure than it's currently getting. I'm glad to hear you're out there promoting and teaching it. YES! I am an explorer and I LOVE IT. It is very much a part of my personality — occasionally to the point of annoyance for my husband.

I work at Atomic Object and we’re starting to make this part of our new projects. It compliments our TDD practices and supports our large automated test suites with real user interaction examination and exposes subjective issues as well as all kinds of weird & crazy interaction issues. No project should be exposed to end users without someone exploring it and evaluating how the user is going to perceive (and break) the software. For this reason I find that personas are one of my favorite resources for creating test paths from. They bring me all those things you listed as currently missing about not being “on the hunt”. It’s so thrilling!

Thanks for writing so passionately about such an valuable practice. It really does need more exposure than it’s currently getting. I’m glad to hear you’re out there promoting and teaching it.

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