Explore It!

How This Book Is Organized

This book is organized into three parts:

• Part 1, ​ Establishing Foundations ​, introduces core building blocks for becoming skilled at exploring. In this section, you’ll learn how to craft charters to guide your exploration, how to observe what’s really happening (hint: it’s harder than it sounds), how to identify interesting variations, and how to determine what behavior should be expected when exercising software in ways no one ever thought about before.

• Part 2, ​ Adding Dimensions ​, builds on that foundation. You’ll learn how to explore by varying interactions, sequences, data, timing, and configurations. Along the way you’ll learn how analysis techniques like state modeling and data modeling can support your ...