What is Ad Hoc Testing?
Performing random testing without any plan is known as Ad Hoc Testing. It is also referred to as Random Testing or Monkey Testing. This type of testing doesn’t follow any documentation or plan to perform this activity. The testing steps and the scenarios only depend upon the tester, and defects are found by random checking.
Ad hoc Testing does not follow any structured way of testing and it is randomly done on any part of application. Main aim of this testing is to find defects by random checking. Ad hoc testing can be achieved with the testing technique called Error Guessing. Error guessing can be done by the people having enough domain knowledge and experience to “guess” the most likely source of errors.
This testing requires no documentation/ planning /process to be followed. Since this testing aims at finding defects through random approach, without any documentation, defects will not be mapped to test cases. Hence, sometimes, it is very difficult to reproduce the defects as there are no test steps or requirements mapped to it.
Types of ad hoc testing
Buddy Testing:
Two buddies mutually work on identifying defects in the same module. Mostly one buddy will be from development team and another person will be from testing team. Buddy testing helps the testers develop better test cases and development team can also make design changes early. This testing usually happens after unit testing completion.
Pair testing:
Two testers are assigned modules, share ideas and work on the same machines to find defects. One person can execute the tests and another person can take notes on the findings. Roles of the persons can be a tester and scribe during testing.
Monkey Testing:
Randomly test the product or application without test cases with a goal to break the system. Read for more :Ad Hoc Testing
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