my sixty second ignite durham pitch

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So I have been testing software professionally for over ten years and in that time the web and mobile
have dramatically changed the sorts of things that I get asked to test. It is a little ironic then that
the systems marketed at testers to do their jobs have largely gone unchanged since the mid 90s.

Testing is a creative process, but the systems available to us right now use a rote, robotic, do this,
do that, expect this result approach. And that’s not very creative at all. But those of us on the
forefront testing know a better way to do things. Mindmaps. Yes, those fun little bubble diagrams you
used back in highschool to brainstorm are ideally suited for capturing and managing test ideas.

There are a number of mindmapping applications floating around that have been co-opted by the testing
community, but none really suit the needs of today’s testers. As a tester, I know and understand these
needs and the mindmap based test case management platform I’ll bring to market during the Ignite Bootcamp
will directly address those needs.

Testers need test case management that is by testers, for testers and, more importantly, doesn’t suck. And
I see no reason why it can’t come from Whitby.