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testland/exploratory-tours-reference

Pure-reference catalog of the seven exploratory testing tours from Whittaker's Exploratory Software Testing (2009): Feature, Money, Landmark, Intellectual, Bad-data, Configuration, and Garbage-collector's, each a themed mission with the signal it surfaces and a worked example. Use as the menu a charter author picks session themes from. Distinct from the mnemonic catalogs sfdpot-exploratory-heuristic (what to vary) and hiccupps-f-heuristic (oracles), and from session-based-test-management-reference, which manages the sessions.

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Content

87%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-structured, lean overview with strong progressive disclosure and concrete actionable examples. Its one gap is workflow_clarity: the session workflow lists clear steps but omits an explicit verification/reproduction checkpoint before findings are filed.

Suggestions

Add an explicit verification step to the How-to-use workflow (e.g. 'Reproduce each candidate finding (target 3/3) before capturing it as a Result'), turning the worked example's implicit practice into a formal checkpoint.

Make the PROOF 'Results' field require a reproduction count or evidence reference so verification is enforced at capture time rather than left implicit.

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Conciseness

The body is lean: it assumes Claude knows what exploratory testing is, keeps the seven-tours summary as a compact table, and offloads per-tour depth and anti-patterns to reference files rather than padding the overview.

3 / 3

Actionability

Concrete, specific guidance throughout: a mission→tours picking table, defined PROOF debrief fields, and a worked example with exact cart values ($24.99 → $22.49) and a reproduced bug (STACK50 applied post-tax, 3/3).

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The six-step How-to-use sequence is clearly ordered, but it lacks an explicit reproduce/verify checkpoint before filing findings — the worked example mentions 'reproduces 3/3' yet the process steps never formalize verification as a gate.

2 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

A clear overview body points via markdown links to two real, one-level-deep reference files (tours-catalog.md for per-tour detail, tour-anti-patterns.md for failure modes); content is appropriately split and easy to navigate.

3 / 3

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Description

85%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is specific, names its seven tours concretely, and excels at distinctiveness by explicitly contrasting with sibling skills. Its main weakness is trigger-term framing: keywords are present but read as catalog content rather than natural user triggers.

Suggestions

Reframe the usage clause as an explicit natural trigger, e.g. 'Use when authoring an exploratory testing charter, choosing tour themes for a session, or when the user mentions exploratory tours / test charters.'

Add common user-facing trigger variations ('exploratory testing', 'test charter', 'exploratory session') alongside the technical tour names to improve trigger-term coverage.

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Specificity

Enumerates the seven concrete tours by name and states each carries 'a themed mission with the signal it surfaces and a worked example' — multiple specific concrete items rather than vague abstraction.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly states what it is (a pure-reference catalog of the seven tours) and provides equivalent explicit trigger guidance via 'Use as the menu a charter author picks session themes from', answering both what and when.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Relevant domain keywords are present ('exploratory testing tours', 'charter', 'session themes'), but the phrasing reads as catalog content rather than natural user trigger phrases and misses common variations a user might actually say.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Explicitly distinguishes itself from sfdpot-exploratory-heuristic, hiccupps-f-heuristic, and session-based-test-management-reference, giving it a clear niche unlikely to trigger the wrong skill.

3 / 3

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Validation

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