Working in Time-Boxed Sessions
Exploring can be a completely open-ended endeavor. Without some mechanism for structuring and organizing your effort, you could spend hours or days meandering aimlessly through the software and wind up with no interesting or useful information to share.
In answer, Jon Bach and James Bach came up with the practice of session-based test management (SBTM).[3] In it, you structure your time into a series of time-boxed sessions. You establish a focus for your session in advance. (Chapter 2, Charter Your Explorations, discusses how to establish and capture that focus.) During the session you explore fluidly, designing and executing tests, moving from one experiment to the next, without pause.
While in each session, ...
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