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The miseducation of Exploratory Testing

I've been noticing a phenomenon lately, that is the over/misuse of the term Exploratory testing. As many testers seems to have kind of settled for the Exploratory testing paradigm and have moved to new frontiers like checking vs testing , it seems many other parties are really getting into it, and of course understanding it in different ways. Couple of examples of this phenomena: 1. In my final days as a consultant one of our sales people, had visited a customer who had no experiences about testing, but specifically requested the sales man to give a offer on Exploratory testing 2. I just looked at the program of Agile testing days 2013 , and really many of the testing related talks were labeled about Exploratory testing, although to me many seemed to talk/practice testing in generally It's nice that the Exploratory testing is gaining momentum, but I am also a bit worried about it. The examples listed above could be supported by many others, which kind of give me the impr