So, at CAST 2018 I had the pleasure of doing a workshop with my friend and colleague Tomas Rosenqvist.
The title was ”Speedtesting using mind maps” and consisted of 90 intense minutes of interaction with the awesome ”Bling R Us” webshop that we created some time ago as a recruitment exercise (I’ll get back to that in the next post…)
The purpose of the workshop is to show how using a mind map template can give you a structure to your testing but still let you move fast.
The exercise was divided into 3 parts: Planning, execution and documentation and each part consisted of a short introduction, doing the actual stuff and then a debrief.
To summarize it, for a specific session:
– Set a mission
– Figure out a good approach
– Spell out all your (relevant) assumptions explicitly
– Make a really really rough plan for your
– Go for it!
– Take loads of notes
– Clean it up and reflect on your work
– Make sure you use as positive a language as possible to maximize the impact of your report
It was… absolutely AWESOME. I loved the energy and enthusiasm in the room and my only regret was having to interrupt people due to time restraint.
Slides, template (xMind), an example of a filled out template (xMind) and a pdf with the instructions and specification is available here
Thank everyone who participated and if you try it out for yourself: please send us feedback and your result so we can iterate and improve!
@LenaPejgan & @muamaidbengt (Twitter)
