A Saturday of testing (Part 1/2)

Last Saturday was filled with testing experience. Not only did I take part in the Weekend Testing 22, facilitated by the colleagues from India, I also experienced the second session of the European Weekend Testing Chapter

WT 22
This session was the last one in a three-part series with support from Dr. Cem Kaner. Having worked through his ideas on how to analyze specifications (WT 20) and the use of mind maps for this and other purposes (WT 21), this session brought together the learnings from the first two.

The task I worked on was:

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/?hl=en is the spec to analyze.
1. Do an active reading and categorize based on James Model - HSTM
2. Make a list of questions you have, after reading through the Spec

I think I got through the task pretty good, even if the time allowed only for a partial analysis.

Here is the part of my post-mortem analysis we did in the discussion

Weekend Testing: So @Markus, please share your experiences. How did you find this weekend session?

Markus D.: More relaxed on my part then the last one. Last weekend I didn't know what I was up for (against )

OK, here's what I did.

I started out skimming and scanning the help files beginning with the "getting started guide".
I was on the lookout for headings and bold text passage. For the findings, I put the URL in the notes field which u can't see in the jpeg, unfortunately.
After the beginners guide i looked through the main headings under "about google calendar" and "access options".

Weekend Testing: Any specific reason why you chose a particular order?

Markus D.: The "getting started guide" for the same reason as krishnaveni I guess - to get an overview. The "about" to collect some more background and the "access options" seemed to allow a view on the technical side

Weekend Testing: what would you do better the next time?

Markus D.: If time allowed I would probably search deeper into sub-topics.

Weekend Testing: You want to try a different tool?

Markus D.: I would use FreeMind since I'm used to it and it does a better automatic organization of the map
One more thing is that I should probably use a different taxonomy, i.e. my own or learn the one of James better. I didn't have the topic specific questions in mind

The mind map I created is stored in as issue #0000088.