Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Tue, 22 Feb 2005

Improving NTF

## Posted at 12:56 in category /misc [permalink] [top]

Adjectives and adverbs

In exploratory testing, you need a way to kick yourself out of your rut, your habitual way of thinking about the software. One of the ways Elisabeth Hendrickson does that is to use lists of adjectives and adverbs, chosen randomly or no, to prompt new ideas. She's got a short writeup here, together with a phrase generator.

My overeducated alter ego can't help pointing out the similarity between what Elisabeth does and the written version of the Surrealist game called "exquisite corpse".

## Posted at 07:17 in category /testing [permalink] [top]