Testing Without a Map

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This is a worked-out example and discussion of how to do one kind of exploratory testing: reconnaissance and fast evaluation of a product that you've never seen before (we no call this "survey testing"). It's based on using the HICCUPP mnemonic (History, Image, Comparable Products, Claims, User Expectations, Product, and Purpose) consistency heuristics to guide testing; when a product is inconsistent with one of these aspects, we have reason to suspect a problem. (This is now out of date. We use "FEWHICCUPS" now.)

Some of the terminology Michael uses here is out of date, but the example is still good.