Ed Foster just died.
Ed was one of the great journalists of Silicon Valley. He listened. He read. He asked probing questions. He changed his mind when the evidence proved him wrong.  He understood the computer and information industries from (at least) a dozen perspectives. And he could explain their perspectives to each other.
Ed was part [...]

This year’s theme at CAST was multidisciplinary approaches to testing. Tying my experience in psychological research, legal practice, and testing, I gave the keynote address:  The Value of Checklists and the Danger of Scripts: What Legal Training Suggests for Testers. At its core, the talk says this:
In the hands of professionals, checklists facilitate the exercise [...]

In January, 2006, several of us worked on definitions of exploratory testing at the Exploratory Testing Research Summit (another link), with follow-up work at the Workshop on Heuristic and Exploratory Techniques in May.  We didn’t reach unanimous agreement at that meeting. However, later discussions based on the meeting’s notes yielded this definition:
“Exploratory software testing is [...]