Paired Exploration

One way to get everyone on the team involved in exploring is to pair them up to explore. Pairing professional testers with others is particularly effective.

If a tester and a business analyst pair together, the tester is likely to learn more about the business and the expectations for the software while the business analyst is likely to learn more about how to design effective test cases. As a result of their conversations about expectations, the business analyst may even learn something about framing concrete requirements with examples.

If a tester and a programmer pair together on exploring, the programmer is likely to gain insight about risks while the tester gains insight about the architecture.

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