You should consider to keep them simple and use any data for analysis during the timebox to see where to explore next. The charter is just a mission to get you started, not a detailed work assignment and reporting tool. I like the format ckenst proposes in his [writing exploratory charters][1]: > **How to Write Exploratory Charters** > > This is based on "A simple charter > template" from Elisabeth Hendrickson's awesome book Explore It!, > Chapter 2, page 67 of 502 (ebook). > > Explore (target) With (resources) To discover (information) > > - **Target**: What are you exploring? It could be a feature, a requirement, or a module. > - **Resources**: What resources will you bring with you? Resources can be anything: a tool, a data set, a technique, a configuration, or perhaps > an interdependent feature. > - **Information**: What kind of information are you hoping to find? Are you characterizing the security, performance, reliability, capability, > usability or some other aspect of the system? Are you looking for > consistency of design or violations of a standard? > > Read more and examples at: https://github.com/ckenst/testing-guides/blob/master/test%20design/writing_exploratory_charters.md [1]: https://github.com/ckenst/testing-guides/blob/master/test%20design/writing_exploratory_charters.md