qa-manual-testing
Manual and exploratory testing: scripted test cases, session-based exploratory charters, decision-table and state-transition test design, and bug bashes. Covers SBTM, Whittaker's tours, Bach and Bolton's heuristics, UAT scripts, and PROOF debriefs. A critic agent (test-script-quality-critic) flags vague preconditions and bundled steps in authored scripts.
/plugin install qa-manual-testing@testland-qaFirst time? Add the marketplace with /plugin marketplace add testland/qa
- Category
- Tooling
- Version
v1.10.10- Contents
- 6 skills · 1 agent
Skills6
bug-bash-facilitatorUse when a team wants a coordinated bug bash before a release or after a big change instead of an ad-hoc 'everyone test for an hour'.skilldecision-table-test-designUse when a spec's outcome depends on several interacting conditions (pricing, eligibility, discounts, routing rules) and needs manual test cases.skillexploratory-charter-authorUse when a feature has too many unknowns to script (new feature, risky refactor, bug cluster) and the team needs an exploratory test plan.skillexploratory-testingPlans and runs time-boxed exploratory testing when tester hours are scarce before a release - one tester with two free 45-minute blocks before code freeze, a high-stakes window such as year-end payroll, or a device and environment the scripted suite never touches.skillmanual-test-script-authorUse when a feature can't or shouldn't be fully automated and a human tester needs a script: UAT sign-off, regression baselines, certification, deploy smoke checklists.skillstate-transition-test-designDerives human-readable manual test cases from stateful behavior: identify states, events, transitions, and guard conditions, draw the state table including invalid (empty-cell) transitions, choose a coverage level (all states, valid transitions / 0-switch, transition pairs / 1-switch per Chow, all transitions including invalid ones), then derive one test case per coverage item as an event sequence with per-step expected states (ISTQB CTFL v4.0 section 4.2.4).skill
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About qa-manual-testing
Manual scripted + exploratory testing. Human-driven testing has two modes: scripted (steps, data, and expected results fixed before execution - the repeatable, signable record) and exploratory (tests designed, executed, and evaluated simultaneously while the tester learns - what finds the bugs nobody thought to anticipate). This plugin covers both: scripted manual test authoring in four formats (step-table, Gherkin, UAT, checklist), systematic test-design techniques (decision tables, state transitions), session-based exploratory testing per Jonathan and James Bach's SBTM with the classic heuristic catalogs (Whittaker's tours, FCC CUTS VIDS, SFDPOT, HICCUPPS-F, CRUSSPIC STMPL) bundled as references, bug-bash facilitation, and an adversarial script-quality gate.
Related reading
- Exploratory Testing Tours: Whittaker's Six Districts
- HTSM: Inside James Bach's Heuristic Test Strategy Model
- HICCUPPS-F: Nine Testing Oracles for Defending Your Bug Calls
- Session-Based Test Management (SBTM): Definition, Sessions and Metrics
- Precision in PROOF Debriefs: The Debriefer's 60-Second Test
- Exploratory Testing Charter: Template and Examples