Chronicles Of Testing

As I started out to mind-map the test ideas for a feature that I was testing/learning to test, many lessons were learned and are now shared below in the form of tips to use when we create or reuse mind-maps created by others. Reviewers and the community of learners helped shaped the way I today create maps. Some of them from the community who read/used the maps provided me with valuable feedback which is incorporated into my learning and is brought to you in the form of these tips. Hope these tips can help when we start out to build a map and share it with a wider audience . Make it generic  - Here it means, do not feed your audiences with steps to re-create but only act as a trigger to move on with an idea to test. Earlier shared at European Testing Conference Slides: http://europeantestingconference.eu/2017/topics/#jyothi-rangaiah http://www.slideshare.net/JyothiR2/creating-and-using-reusable-mindmaps ...

Day1 at the  Functional conference - FuConf2014 Keynote: The keynote 'The joy of functional programming' was delivered by Venkat Subramanium. Indeed a joy to listen to this talk. There were lessons shared on coding standards and sub-standards. I had not set expectations before the talk. As the talk progressed Venkat shared the history of programming, computability, object oriented programming and mention of this quote by Alan Kay who coined the term object oriented. I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I didn't have C++ in mind -- Alan Kay, OOPSLA '97 The talk centered upon what was presumed as 'mainstream' once upon a time needn't be the word of the Lord.  Venkat deconstructed the word mainstream by quoting many examples like: -heliocentric theory. -importance of hygiene at hospitals. -women's right to vote. The gist of the above references being: not to fall prey for dogmatic mainstream theories but to be as pragma...