Talk: Mindmaps: A killer way to increase your test ideas
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Prashant Hegde
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Mindmaps: A killer way to increase your test ideas
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Tester's are expected to come up with lot of artifacts during the process of testing. The traditional test artifacts are time intensive, bulky and their structure do not support agile approach of software development. When working in agile environment testers work in a highly compressed test execution cycles. The stakeholders always complain testing as a bottleneck and ask to cut down number of testing activities or time allocated for testing. If we spend too much time in documentation ,we might end up having very less time to do actual testing. Documentation != testing Testers can use smart techniques like Mindmaps to create lean test artifacts - from test plan to a test report. Lean test artifacts convey the same information using fewer details and less verbose. Lean test artifacts save tremendous amount of time involved in test documentation. When I say I am applying lean approach it means I am reducing waste and at the same time I am amplifying my learning. Mindmapping is a cognitive activity that triggers creative ideas and reduces waste by avoiding extensive formats for test documentation.
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The session will start with challenges that we face in day today life and how mindmaps can help us to be organised and more productive. First 15-20 minutes of the session will the audience will learn what are mindmaps, how they evolved, why mindmap is a brain compatible technique for learning and how to draw effective mindmaps from scratch. The second half of the session we will discuss about the problems with traditional documentation and using mindmaps as lean test artifacts with examples. We will learn different approaches to design: - Lean test plan - Lean test ideas for improved test coverage The last section will speak of using mindmaps for leaning and capturing meetings effectively. Mindmaps can be used right from test planning to test reporting: Test planning While test planning, you can draw an initial Mindmap keeping in mind the list of tasks, schedules, tools, roles, responsibilities, milestones etc. Present the Mindmap and discuss it with your stakeholders. Modify the Mindmap if any changes are required. One thing you will love about mind maps is its flexibility to adapt to changes. All you might have to do is to add or remove a node/branch. This flexibility might not happen when you draw on a paper, but a mind mapping software assists any changes easily. The final mind map shows you the scope of testing in one glance. This mindmap can be used as a blueprint and later converted into a plan. This ensures that no test activity is missed. Test case design Mindmaps are an efficient way of creating lean test cases. It reduces the time required for creating test cases yielding better results. Mindmaps are very easy to maintain and are flexible to changing requirements. Draw branches from every user story/epic and associate all its functionalities as sub-nodes.Start adding test ideas/test case for each functionality. I created a mindmap covering test ideas for the major functionality. My team started to expand the mindmap by branching out more and more test ideas. We kept adding new nodes when we found unique scenarios that uncovered the bugs during our test sessions. This drastically increased our test coverage.The final mindmap can be as the basis for test case document or it's cool if it's used as it is. The best part of mind mapping is that you generate more ideas when drawing them. Collaborative mind mapping with the team gives you best results. Link to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1en6Ew0nC08pQ42_9sgxsP6lAyw7c5JxbbrdaYBYn_n8/edit?usp=sharing
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