Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Fieldstones ... an experiment

I came across the concept of "fieldstones" when attending the BBST Online Instructors course after CAST last year.

This snippet is from the BBST instructors website:

'''What is the Fieldstone Method?''' In ''Weinberg on Writing'', author Gerry Weinberg describes how he collects ideas for small chunks of writing for later use. If you're interested, we invite you to read more about Gerry's ''Fieldstone Method'' at:
Last year, I was doing quite a lot of mentoring of testers and found that in evolving my approach to this, I wanted to develop something that I could refer back to so that I wouldn't forget to talk about the important stuff. I decided to start collecting my thoughts during sessions and then putting these into Mindmaps. Each time I had another session, I could use the map as a guideline for talking about the topic and during the session refine it. I guess you could also call these mindmaps heuristics. The initial thoughts that I collected came from research into and experience of a specific testing task. Although the ideas are not all my own, they are all things that I know I have applied and have worked for me and I'm confident I can explain and teach. I am looking to share these over a period of time and would like to ask for feedback and questions in terms of how useful you think they may be as well as any questions on the content.


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