How Much Is Enough?—Exploring Exploratory Software Testing

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2008-02
Article Summary: 

Exploratory testers design and execute tests in the moment, starting with an open mission and investigating new ideas as they arise. But how do we know when to stop? The first step is to recognize that we can't know when we're done, because any approach to answering the stopping question is necessarily heuristic.