Sponsors

Specify a list of stakeholders that are interested in the outcome of the exploratory test and therefore sponsor it.

Experts

List the names of stakeholders who may provide additional information on the area being examined.

Description

Document the purpose of this test charter. This may contain the whole test charter information in a couple of sentences.

Summary

Write a short summary about the test result intended for other testers. A summary for the sponsors will be given in the test reports.

Charter

Especially beginners may find it easier to add information on the three main parts of a charter in separate sections. In case you find a shorter representation in one to three sentences consider to skip these sections and add this information as a short description or description.

Sessions

The time-boxed session that logs everything the exploring team encounters. From short ideas on where to search next to hard and astonishing facts put everything in that document. This log of information will be the basis for the test report you want to write for the sponsors.

There may be more than one session, bit typically there is only one per charter.

Reports

Based on the charter and the session log, the team will create a report that summarizes the information found during the exploration. There may be more than one report if there are different sponsors with a different background interested in the outcome of the test.

Subordinate Test Charters

Testers may want to break a larger charter into smaller charters to have several, more focussed sessions. In this case add the additional charters as child pages to this document. Keep in mind that the child relationship indicated that if - for some reason - the parent test charter is removed, all children should be removed, too. If this is not the case, better add the charters to the homepage.