My lightning talk for the Testing and Automation devroom at FOSDEM 2013: The red/green metaphor to indicate failed/successful jobs may seem obvious but it doesn't scale when trying to visualise the state of a complex system. After discussing the shortcomings of the current approach, we look at ideas for alternative visualisations and start defining requirements. This talk does not claim to have all the answers; It is a call for action, to seek help from the community.

1. What's our
Status?
Dirk Haun
FOSDEM 2013

4. We are here

6. 92 %

7. What about
importance?

9. Products

10. Wrong assumption:
Green is the natural state

11. Requirements
✓ is easy to grasp
✓ not all jobs are equal

12. Boss

13. Support

14. Sysadmin

15. No one solution

16. Other industries?

17. I can has help plz?

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19. Credits
Photos and images, in order of appearance:
Lights! by Lawrence Rayner (Flickr),
LED, Green and LED, Red by Bryan Nielsen (Open Clipart Library),
Close up / Macro of four felt-tip-pencils in green, yellow, blue and orange by
photosteve101 (Flickr),
Box by Tony Clough (stock.xchng),
Alone by Kevin Collins (Flickr),
Business Hands by Oleg Prikhodko (iStockphoto File #379024),
How may I help you? by Exact Image Limited (iStockphoto File #345416),
Network technician performs preventive maintenance a server by maximili (iStockphoto
File #20452635),
Rings by Les Chatfield (Flickr),
Control Room by Alaa Hamed (stock.xchng),
(original source of the "help plz?" cat photo is unknown - please contact me if you have
more information),
Thank You by Margherita J. L. Lisoni (Flickr).
Presentation by Dirk Haun, www.themobilepresenter.com
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