Talk at Selenium Conf 2017, Austin Video:https://youtu.be/JQuzoceahww

3.  What are mind maps?
 Why mind maps?
 How to create a mind map?

4.  Wikipedia says:
 A mind map is a diagram used to visually organize information. A mind map is hierarchical and
shows relationships among pieces of the whole. It is often created around a single concept, drawn
as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as
images, words and parts of words are added. Major ideas are connected directly to the central
concept, and other ideas branch out from those.
 In terms of testing:
 A mind map is your understanding of the product

6. Charles Darwin

7.  Too many problems coming in, it becomes difficult to manage it
 Too less time to test, so cannot indulge too much in documents and maintaining
them
 Simpler execution (it actually gets executed)
 Increase test coverage
 Tester can think, steps are spoon feeding
 It uses a tree based graphical structure which imprints better on the brain, than
tabular structure.

9.  Xmind
 WiseMapping
 MindMeister
 MindMap
 White board

12. What’s going on in your dog’s mind

14.  Brainstorming
 Problem solving
 Take notes during a meeting/ MOMs
 Write a novel
 Plan your travel

16. Thesaurus illustration of keyword good

17.  Create branches based on user features
 Add all features as notes to your mind map
 Test ideas/cases as sub branches
 Bird’s eye view of features: which is lacking tests and which is not, where we need to add
more tests
 Execution present in mind map only
 Impact analysis
 The map can be read for E2E test cases by combining different branches and following
through them.

18.  Flow charts

19.  ERD

20.  Use case diagram

21. Questions?
Comments?
Suggestions?