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Advanced exploratory testing techniques with Session-Based Test Management (SBTM), RST heuristics, and test tours. Use when planning exploration sessions, investigating bugs, or discovering unknown quality risks.
Test software in the style of James Bach, pioneer of exploratory testing and context-driven testing. Emphasizes skilled human investigation, heuristics-based test design, and adapting to context rather than following rigid scripts. Use when designing test strategies, performing exploratory testing, or building thinking testers.
Design and execute structured exploratory testing sessions. Covers Session-Based Test Management (SBTM), charter writing, heuristic-based exploration (HICCUPS, FEW HICCUPS), bug discovery patterns, note-taking templates, and conversion of findings to automated tests. Use when: "exploratory testing," "SBTM," "manual testing," "bug hunting," "test charter," "heuristic testing." Not for: an AI browser agent autonomously exploring the app from a natural-language goal — use agentic-browser-testing. Not for: testing your product's own AI/LLM features — use ai-system-testing. Related: test-planning, ai-bug-triage, risk-based-testing, agentic-browser-testing.
Goal-driven E2E testing where a browser agent (Playwright MCP / computer-use) reads a natural-language goal and explores the app via the accessibility tree to assert outcomes — no pre-written script. Covers when intent-driven beats scripted, making agent runs deterministic (pinned model, temperature 0, seeded data, bounded steps, explicit success assertion, snapshot-not-pixel), cost/latency control, the accessibility-tree-first interaction model, CI gating, and graduating a stable run into a scripted Playwright test. Use when: "agentic browser test," "goal-driven browser test," "let an agent explore the app," "natural-language E2E," "browser agent smoke test," "Playwright MCP test." Not for: Writing/maintaining deterministic scripted Playwright tests — that is playwright-automation. Testing your product's OWN LLM features — that is ai-system-testing. Related: playwright-automation, ai-system-testing, exploratory-testing, test-reliability, qa-project-context.
Author and maintain MANUAL and hybrid test cases and suites in TestRail, Xray (Jira), Zephyr Scale, and Qase. Covers test-case anatomy (title, preconditions, steps, expected results, test data), suite/section organization, bulk authoring from user stories and acceptance criteria, ambiguous-step linting, CSV/API import-export payloads per tool, requirement traceability and coverage gaps, review hygiene, and when a manual case should graduate to automation. Use when: "write a test case," "manual test case," "TestRail case," "Xray test," "Zephyr Scale case," "Qase case," "import CSV into TestRail," "lint these steps," "traceability report," "should this be automated." Not for: Generating automated TEST CODE — that is ai-test-generation. Sprint-level WHAT-to-test selection — that is test-planning. Related: ai-test-generation, test-planning, exploratory-testing, qa-project-context.
Produce a risk matrix or heatmap that quantifies what could break by business impact × probability, runs failure mode analysis on the top items, and maps test coverage to risk zones. Includes stakeholder interview frameworks and continuous reassessment. Run this BEFORE test-strategy or test-planning. Use when: "risk assessment," "risk matrix," "risk heatmap," "what could break," "critical paths," "failure modes," "where to focus testing." Not for: multi-quarter QA direction — use test-strategy. Not for: a single sprint/release test plan — use test-planning. Not for: hands-on session-based bug hunting — use exploratory-testing. Related: test-strategy, test-planning, release-readiness, qa-metrics.
Systematically explore and test a web application to find bugs, UX issues, and other problems. Use when asked to "dogfood", "QA", "exploratory test", "find issues", "bug hunt", "test this app/site/platform", or review the quality of a web application. Produces a structured report with full reproduction evidence -- step-by-step screenshots, repro videos, and detailed repro steps for every issue -- so findings can be handed directly to the responsible teams.
Design manual testing and exploratory testing plans, including test charters, heuristic methods, and session records. Default output is Markdown, Excel/CSV/JSON is available upon request. Use for manual testing.
This skill should be used when the user asks to "test this website", "run exploratory testing", "check for accessibility issues", "verify the login flow works", "find bugs on this page", or requests automated QA testing. Triggers on web application testing scenarios including smoke tests, accessibility audits, e-commerce flows, and user flow validation using ScoutQA CLI. IMPORTANT: Use this skill proactively after implementing web application features to verify they work correctly - don't wait for the user to ask for testing.
Systematically explore and test a mobile app on iOS/Android with agent-device to find bugs, UX issues, and other problems. Use when asked to "dogfood", "QA", "exploratory test", "find issues", "bug hunt", or "test this app" on mobile. Produces a structured report with reproducible evidence: screenshots, optional repro videos, and detailed steps for every issue.
Apply context-driven testing principles where practices are chosen based on project context, not universal 'best practices'. Use when making testing decisions, questioning dogma, or adapting approaches to specific project needs.
Generates diverse AI user personas to autonomously test applications. Simulates beginners, power users, and users with accessibility needs to discover hidden UI/UX flaws.