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Generating and analyzing data

Generating and analyzing data

From the course: Software Testing: Exploratory Testing

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Generating and analyzing data

- [Instructor] In the world of DevOps, data has become increasingly important. We've already looked at some ways that you can use exploratory testing in DevOps, but I want to take a bit more time in this video to talk specifically about ways that we can use exploratory testing to help us in data analysis. One thing that is important for testers to do well is to advocate for bugs getting fixed. If we really want to make an impact on the quality of the product, it isn't enough to just find the bugs. We also need to explain why they matter, so that they actually get addressed. Being able to point to actual customer usage patterns via data can be very helpful in this regard. I recently filed a defect about something that seemed like it would have been an unlikely thing for people to do, but I was able to include a link in the defect that showed errors in the logs as evidence that some of our clients were indeed doing this…

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