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Exploratory Test Charter
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-30
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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Write session-based exploratory testing charters to find what scripted tests miss. Use when asked to plan exploratory testing, write a test charter, design a testing session, or do risk-based exploration of a feature. Produces focused charters — a mission, areas/risks to explore, tactics and oracles, and timeboxed sessions — so exploration is purposeful and accountable, not random clicking.
What to give it
▸The target — the feature/area and what it does.
▸Risk & concerns — what's new/changed, what's complex, and where failure would hurt most.
▸Context — users, platforms, data, and integrations involved.
▸Time available — to size and prioritise the sessions.
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Each charter has a clear mission (explore X to discover Y about risk Z) — not "test the app"
✓Charters are prioritised by risk, with the rationale stated
✓Test ideas/tactics are concrete (boundaries, interruptions, bad data, roles…), not generic
✓Oracles are named so the tester can recognise a problem
✓Sessions are timeboxed and sized to the available time
✓A lightweight reporting structure (coverage + findings) is included
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not write "explore the feature" with no mission, areas, or oracles — that's aimless clicking
Do not skip prioritisation — explore the riskiest areas first
Do not turn charters into scripted step-by-step cases — exploration needs freedom within focus
Do not omit oracles — without them a tester can't tell right from wrong
Do not leave sessions open-ended — timebox them so coverage is accountable
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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