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		bluGill on July 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000) The problem is QA tends to get to scripted. You need to exercise each corner of the product, thus you test A, B, C in that order - so you never find cases where testing C, A, B breaks, or any other permutation. (to be fair with any complexity it is impossible to test all permutations)

adrianratnapala on July 15, 2019 | [–]

That's one part of it.

Another part is hiring a breed of test engineers who like breaking stuff and have a knack for it.

ebiester on July 15, 2019 | [–]

We call it exploratory testing.

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