Traditional processes have required testers to create a large amount of documentation in the form of test plans, test cases, and test reports. It’s time to think differently. Creating test artifacts in the “old school” textual style takes too much time away from actual testing. Besides, text is boring and uses only the left side of your brain. Visual images—charts, graphs, and diagrams—engage your right brain for more thinking power. The old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” is really true! Pascal Dufour shows how you can employ visualizations—mind maps, drawings, dashboards, charts, and other graphics—to improve clarity and guide your team to create lightweight testware artifacts. Find out how visualization helps you more easily and more quickly understand information—enabling and improving team decision making, collaboration, and agility. Join Pascal to see how visual tools, often very basic and simple, can help you think different—and perform better.
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W8 Test Techniques
5/1/2013 1:45:00 PM
Think Different: Visualization Tools for
Testers
Presented by:
Pascal Dufour
codecentric
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A tester and ScrumMaster at codecentric, Pascal Dufour has a passion for agile projects where he implements pragmatic test strategies combining agile and context-driven testing. Pascal has more than ten years of experience at large international companies with different types of testing from embedded software to system integration. Enthusiastic and creative, he tries to make testing more fun, making his work visual and as simple as possible. Pascal helps team members improve their efforts in Scrum emphasizing ethics, commitment, and transparency. Motivating people to use a dynamic approach to testing, he believes teams should contain all disciplines and work together to create solutions. Pascal maintains a blog on pascaldufour.nl.
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Our brain
Logic Speech
Language Analytics
Calculation Abstract thinking
Color Phantasy Music Images Feeling Rythm Creativity
Special thanks to: Huib Schoots and Jean-Paul Varwijk www.magnifiant.com www.arborosa.com
Many of the ideas in this presentation were inspired by colleagues including Michael Bolton, James Bach, Gojko Adzic, Mike Rohde, Dan Roam, Jeff Patton, Jurgen Appelo, Ruud Cox and Alan Richardson