Mind maps tutorial Agile Testing Days
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The document discusses the concept of mind mapping as a creative and efficient method for organizing thoughts and information, particularly in agile testing environments. It emphasizes the advantages of mind maps over traditional linear notes, highlighting their visual nature and ability to foster creative thinking. Additionally, it provides guidelines for creating effective mind maps, various applications in testing, and tools to facilitate the process.
Mind maps tutorial Agile Testing Days
- 1. Mind Maps An agile way of working Huib Schoots Jean-Paul Varwijk Agile Testing Days 2012
- 4. Program
- 5. Create your 1st mind map Create a mind map about yourself in 15 minutes: • Who are you? • What do you do for work? • W hat are your interests? • Learning goals for today • Anything else you want to share… Present your mind map to the group in 3 minutes
- 6. Our brain Logic Color Speech Phantasy Language Music Analytics Images Calculation Feeling Abstract thinking Rythm Creativity Source: www.karendevries.nl
- 7. Why Mind Maps work • Your memory is naturally associative, not linear • Any idea has thousands of links in your mind • Mind maps allow associations and links to be recorded and reinforced • The mind remembers key words and images, not sentences • Because mind maps are more visual and depict associations between key words, they are much easier to recall than linear notes Source: http://www.peterrussell.com/MindMaps/Advantages.php
- 8. Creativity • Adults: on average 3 to 6 alternatives • Children: often 60 or more alternatives • Numbed by education, norms & values, inhibiting curiosity, coloring within the lines
- 10. Visualisation Visualisation is the translation of a thought, result or other information into a visible representation
- 11. Visualisation Best known forms: • Traffic signs • Diagrams • Graphics • Tables • Maps • Photos
- 12. Visualisation Purpose of this tutorial: • Learning to visualise using mind maps • To express yourself using little text and explanation Visualisation helps to: • Develop ideas and information • Steer though processes • Transfer ideas and results
- 13. Sketch notes
- 14. Argument map
- 15. Concept map
- 16. Radial tree
- 17. Topic map
- 18. Semantic network
- 19. Euler diagram
- 22. Spider diagram
- 23. Mind map Source: http://www.mindmapart.com/how-to-mind-map-mind-map-jane-genovese/
- 24. Mind map A combination of: • Images • Symbols • Codes • Dimensions • Key words Goal: To store and transmit information
- 25. Tony Buzan Mind maps mimic the thought processes of your brain! The five most important brain functions: 1. Recieve 2. Store 3. Analyse 4. Execute 5. Control
- 26. Video Tony Buzan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQ
- 27. Mind maps according Buzan • Take a large piece of paper (A2 – A3) • Place the paper in ‘landscape’ • Draw a central image in the middle of your mind map • Do not box in your image
- 29. Mind maps according Buzan • Add branches to your central image • These branches represent main themes to your cental image • Each branch has its own color. Use at least three colors. • The lines are thick, curved and organic, like the branch of tree to the trunk • Each branch has a single (key) word of image
- 31. Mind maps according Buzan • Add a second level of branches • These branches are associations triggered by the main branches • The lines are thinner, but still curved • The branches have single words, but may be lowercase • The size and style of the letters provide extra data about the importance and meaning
- 34. Be creative… Source: http://www.mindmapinspiration.co.uk
- 35. Buzan Exercise: 1. Create a mind map of your holiday plans or hobby 2. Use words, colors and drawings 3. Share your mind map 4. Two of you will present the result to the group
- 36. Hand made mind maps? • Advantage: – Easy to create – Personal • Disadvantage: – Personal – Changes – Transfer
- 37. Mind map tooling • Advantage: – Easy to share – Fits in to existing documents • Disadvantage: – Is it really a mind map? – Need of hardware – Need of software
- 38. iMindmap http://www.thinkbuzan.com/nl/registration/freetrial
- 39. XMind http://www.xmind.net/download/win/
- 40. MindJet http://www.mindjet.com/
- 41. SimpleMind http://www.simpleapps.eu/simplemind/desktop#trial
- 42. Freemind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download
- 43. Text2MindMap http://www.text2mindmap.com/
- 44. Tooling Exercise: Transfer your previously hand made mind map into a tool
- 45. Mind maps and testing
- 46. Test plan Question: What are characteristics of a good test plan?
- 47. Test plan: old school MS Word: – Lots of text (this example = 55 pages!!!) – Inaccessible – Does anybody really read these?
- 48. Test plan: mind map Mindjet Mind Manager turned a 24 pages template into this mind map (word document import)
- 49. Test plan: mind map
- 50. Test plan: mind map
- 51. Test strategy: risk analysis Source: Pascal Dufour (http://pascaldufour.wordpress.com/)
- 52. Test strategy Source: http://www.moolya.com
- 53. Test strategy Source: http://testerkiwi.blogspot.nl/
- 54. Source: Ruud Cox, Testing in a Medical Device Context, EuroStar 2012
- 55. Coverage outline Source: Michael Bolton, ET workshops Rabobank International 2012
- 56. Coverage outline Source: Michael Bolton, ET workshops Rabobank International 2012
- 57. Strategy outline
- 58. Project Kick-off Source: Graham Freeburn – Map your way to better testing (EuroStar 2012)
- 59. Exercise: Create a test strategy mind map of the DB Bahn travel planner http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en
- 60. Test ideas • Heuristic test strategy model • Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet • You Are Not Done Yet • Touring Heuristic
- 61. Heuristic Test Strategy Model Source: http://www.satisfice.com/tools/satisfice-tsm-4p.pdf
- 62. Heuristic Test Strategy Model Source: http://www.satisfice.com/tools/satisfice-tsm-4p.pdf
- 64. You are not done yet Source: http://www.thebraidytester.com/downloads/YouAreNotDoneYet.pdf
- 65. Touring Heuristic Source: http://michaeldkelly.com/blog/2005/9/20/touring-heuristic.html
- 67. The famous parking calculator http://www.grr.org/ParkCalc.php
- 68. Test coverage Structure: What is it made of? Function: What does it do?
- 69. Test coverage Data: What is being processed? Platform: What does it depend on?
- 70. Test coverage Operation: How is it used? Time: Is there a time factor?
- 71. Test coverage Source: Pekka Marjamäki, Nordic Testing Days 2012
- 72. Test cases / test ideas Source: http://www.bettertesting.co.uk
- 73. Test cases / test ideas Source: http://www.bettertesting.co.uk
- 74. Test cases / test ideas (incl. output and reporting) Source: http://www.moolya.com
- 77. Bad example?
- 80. Bad example!!
- 81. Suggestion
- 82. Multiple level mind map
- 83. Multiple level mind map
- 84. Exercise: Create a number of test cases or test ideas in a mind map
- 85. Coverage report
- 87. Test reports Source: http://automation-beyond.com
- 89. Dashboards Source: Rapid Software Testing, James Bach & Michael Bolton
- 91. Other uses • CV • Minutes • Summary • Brainstorm • Websites • To prepare a presentation • Writing blogs/books • Capture procedures • SWOT • Etc.
- 92. Resume
- 94. Session notes Source: http://christintesting.wordpress.com/
- 95. Brainstorm
- 96. Summary Source: http://www.raamstijn.nl/eenblogjeom/
- 97. Book summary Source: http://drbakker.nl/
- 98. Course summary
- 99. Website Source: http://www.moolya.com
- 100. Preparation
- 101. Book outline Source: JuboCo TestNet
- 102. Procedure Source: http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/forum/topics/application-of-mindmaps-for
- 103. SWOT Source: Graham Freeburn – Map your way to better testing (EuroStar 2012)
- 105. Mind Maps: useful?? • How useful are mind maps? • What are the advantages? • What are the disadvantages? • For what are you going to use them, starting next week?
- 107. Acknowledgements • This tutorial is made by Jean-Paul Varwijk and Huib Schoots • The material is created with input from: Darren McMillan, Michael Bolton, Albert Gareev, Pradeep Soundararajan, Aaroon Hodder, Pekka Marjamäki, Ivor McCormack, Graham Freeburn, Christin Wiedemann, Pascal Dufour, Ruud Cox • This material is evolutionary. New items will be added and all input is welcome!
- 108. Jean-Paul Varwijk http://arborosa.org [email protected] @arborosa Huib Schoots http://www.magnifiant.com [email protected] @huibschoots
Editor's Notes
- #5: HEEL VOL PROGRAMMA…. Stemmen: kortekoffiepauze? Mssietslangerdoorgaan?
- #10: http://www.peterrussell.com/MindMaps/Advantages.php
- #72: NordicTesting Days
- #103: http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/forum/topics/application-of-mindmaps-for