Category: Tips
Use the Right Words – It Matters!
| 2012/03/18 | Posted by CCAdmin under Tips |
Have you ever looked at some instructions and scratched your head for a long time because they didn’t make sense? Have you done this only to find out later that the problem was just that the instructions used the wrong terms which effectively made it gibberish to someone who knew the correct terms (e.g. you)?… more
Mind Mapping and Getting “The Big Picture”
| 2012/02/26 | Posted by CCAdmin under Mind Map, Models, prodcutivity, Software Testing, Tips |
Early in my career I wrote a lot of device driver type software for test equipment. We utilized these drivers in our automated testing framework and test scripts in order to use the test equipment for testing purposes. I specifically remember not always knowing what the project that the software was being used on, was… more
Personal Kanban Rides A Mind Map To Portability
| 2011/09/26 | Posted by CCAdmin under conference, kanban, lean, PKFlow, prodcutivity, Tips, Tools, Wisdom |
First a disclaimer: I am not a kanban expert. I discovered kanban through a book earlier this year. Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry. This blog about personal kanban is “my” interpretation of using the technique and facilitating a portable version of it (mechanically) via a mind… more
Brainstorming Use Case Scenarios For Testing With Mind Maps
| 2011/08/22 | Posted by CCAdmin under Software Testing, Tips, Tools |
In an earlier blog post, I discussed Use Case Scenarios. The basic idea is that a use case is used to capture a behavior with pre-conditions, steps of the behavior and expected results. That use case can easily be flipped to create a test case (expected results first). A use case describes a behavior, but… more
CAST2011 Wrap Up
| 2011/08/14 | Posted by CCAdmin under AST, CAST, conference, Learning, Software Testing, Tips |
Wow….just wow. Yup…that’s the best I can come up with to summarize my experience in one sentence. It was complete sensory overload. Intellectual overload (or “intellectually hung over, in the best possible way” as Jon Bach tweeted after the conference was over), meeting people whose blogs and books I’ve been reading (who were all super… more
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