1

Establish Session Length

• Set the period of time for the exploratory testing session. This period should be no less than a half an hour and no greater than two hours.
• Set the goals for the session. Start a session log.

2

Meet Persona Expectations

• Select a persona from the set of published personas.
• Run through the existing functionality to make sure persona expectations are met.

3

Envision New Goals

• Examine the challenges the persona faces. If the challenges might be too difficult to overcome, open a new bug or add new scenario or quality of service entries to the scenario list.
• Make changes to existing scenarios or quality of service requirements and track the changes to appropriately reflect the new understanding.
• Look for new goals or missing functionality necessary to fulfill the product vision. Add new scenarios or quality of service requirement entries to the scenario list.
• Look for quality of service concerns and add new quality of service requirements to the quality of service requirement list.

New scenario and/or quality of service requirements have been added to reflect the new understanding of the system.