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Whiteboarding for Testers, Developers and Customers too
Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com

How can testers spend more time doing productive testing and waste less effort preparing "useless" project documentation? Whiteboarding techniques enable powerful communication and collaboration without all the paperwork. Rob Sabourin has used whiteboarding to help identify technical risks, better understand user needs and to focus testing on what really matters to business stakeholders.

Whiteboards can be used to communicate between testers, developers and customers. Whiteboarded block diagrams can visulaize technical risk. Whiteboarded fault models can highlight failure modes. Testers can elicit usage scenarios directly from customers using story boards diagrams.

Rob Sabourin shows how simple whiteboarding strategies help testers learn, help testers design tests and help testers estimate their activities.

Whiteboarding allows testers to collaborate with developers, customers and other testers to solve complex problems.

Rob share his experiences whiteboarding of all sorts of visual models: block diagrams, time sequences, story boards, state models, control flows, data flows and mind maps to name a few.

What is the Big Message?
Whiteboard for Powerful communication and collaboration without the need for heavy documentation

What are the Practical Take Aways?
Testers can use whiteboards to
Identify technical risks
Understand user requirements
Focus testing on what really matters

What is the Wow?
whiteboarding leads to improved tester
Productivity
Value
Agility
Focus
Teamwork

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Expectations

Whiteboard for Powerful communication and collaboration without the need for heavy documentation