Aplicação de uma metodologia baseada em mapas mentais para o planejmento de testes ágeis em um ambiente acadêmico

Abstract

In agile environments such as testing activities are consistently performed throughout the development process. The test planning activity becomes difficult when it is used Case of formal tests in these environments, since it is a time consuming process and it generates extensive documentation causing difficulty in reading and executing the test cases by items. The use of not-so-conventional techniques to aid in planning can be useful and bring a number of benefits, such as the use of mind maps that design a structuring of information so that it is easy to organize as ideas and understanding are simpler ideas. The objective of this work is to apply a methodology for the mental mapping technique to perform tests of the Nucleus of Practices in Informatics of the Federal University of Ceará. This work presents a methodology used, based on a choice of the application used for the mental map model, the development of the methodology, an application of the methodology in a Project of Practices in Informatics and a final evaluation of the use of the methodology. The obtained results could show that the methodology reached its objective of assisting in the planning of the agile tests and that the generated maps can also be used for execution of the tests.