The Cornell method organizes exploratory testing notes into a title, cue column, session notes, and summary. An LLM can apply this structure to raw notes, producing a more usable report than an unstructured transcription. section 8.3
A Cornell-formatted testing report separates information into:
- Title: identifies the testing subject. section 8.3
- Cue column: records the charter or guiding question. section 8.3
- Session notes: captures investigations, observations, and findings. section 8.3
- Summary: states the testing aim and the scope examined. section 8.3
Prompting an LLM
Use an instruction such as: “You are an exploratory tester. Convert the exploratory testing notes delimited by three hashes into a report using the Cornell method of note taking.” For a bookings report-view session, the result can organize slow loading, navigation problems, test-data creation, accessibility, responsiveness, and text legibility under the four Cornell elements. section 8.3
