Slides from Janet Aponte-Pagan's 2017 Fall OnlineTestConf session – Mind maps can save your sanity! Using Mindmaps to visually layout user stories or requirements to gain a better understanding of the overall project. Main Takeaways: Converting user stories/requirements into a meaningful diagram that can be used to: – Create a high level test approach – identify potential risk items – identify minimal essential testing – Develop a test coverage matrix – Identify specific features/functionality For more visit: www.onlinetestconf.com

1. Mind Maps Can
Save Your Sanity!
Janet Aponte-Pagan
Senior Software QA/QC Analyst

2. Mind maps can help to turn a 200 page
written document into a visual road map…

3. allowing testers to essentially eliminate
all of the written fluff and focus on what’s
needed…

4. and potentially, even identify testing that
may be excluded.

5. This method helps testers to quickly
break down the various components…

6. into visual mini mockups for each
required module.

7. They’re also great when it comes to
tracking distinct access that’s spread out
through the entire document.

8. Using this technique you can quickly flag
user groups at a high level…

9. then drill down into role based access if
called for in the requirements.

10. Mind maps are super helpful as well when
you need to capture a bunch of
functionality…

11. throughout the various modules for the
entire application.

12. Overall, by visually mapping
requirements, a tester can start to more
easily see the big picture early on…

13. so instead of repeatedly needing to refer
back to that 200 page document…

14. testers can create a visual map organizing all
that writing into a relative outline!