Music, Mneumonics and a 3-D model?

Kanye West does Performance Testing? Say what?....Well it might have got your attention right?

So what am I talking about? Well I'm going to have a 'crazy' Half-baked half hour? Inspired by Jon Bach's blog post and sleep deprivation oh dear...Oh well...


Here goes...

1. How about itunes (or any other music provider) does mneumonics?

-btw if I mention itunes enough do I get any freebies from any Apple people out there?

Well I thought of this in the car on the way home from golf with my father-in-law ( I won btw!) and on radio 2 there was a music quiz...a song came on...which I recognized and guessed the right year...which happened to be when I was about 3. So had I remembered the song from when I was 3? or was it just a coincidence...or had I just thought that I'd thought I'd remembered it...hmm...anyway I thought I'd remembered it...then I thought about a lot of songs I remember....can I use this in testing?? Also, I started thinking about songs and experiences....so can you do songs/experiences/mneumonics?

Parimala compiled a list of mneumonics in her blog about the power of mneumonics.

So can you turn stuff like SFDPT and CRUSSPIC etc into a playlist? I'm proposing the 'P' of CRUSSPIC to be Kanye West - 'Stonger' (Should I really be promoting Kanye West?)...anyway I heard the song and bizarrely I thought of Performance Testing....tenous linkage...

oh and Kanye West also does 'Love(Bug) Lockdown' aswell....Is Kanye West a tester???

Anybody got some kool songs to fit into this? I really want to fit Michael Jackson's - 'Beat it' in somewhere...hey if we can get some songs for a mneumonic we can create a playlist...oh and the STC might distribute it in the next edition of their magazine...

Half-Baked idea turns into Apple Freebies and magazine download....rar...now we're cooking! or baking or whatever...(Well I told you it was a crazy half-hour)


What if we all have our playlists but swap them, and try and find out what mneumonic it is? So thinking about a mneumonic that makes you think about a mneumonic that makes you think about heuristics...wow a lot of thinking...

or can you over-think? (another blog post in the making)


2. Concentration break 10 second mneumonicizer

That moment your into something intense on your screen or keyboard , you lift you head and hands for 10 seconds you need a break. Back in the day I had a miniture basketball net in the test lab so I'd pick up the ball and launch the ball towards the hoop, and then go back to the screen.

So now what I'm thinking about is a little thing you have on your desk. A thing that you could flick and it would rotate round showing you all the words for a mneumonic... A blinking mneumonic....You could have sounds aswell....A musical blinking mneumonic...

Don't tell me, the testers...oops...I mean Engineers at Google already have one of these....

3. Model Exploring

Instead of 2-d models we have 3-D ones which you can explore. Like a testbox360 or testbox live? pick up a console and off you go...We have games where we do exploring and stuff don't we? ..could you not have a model represented like a game....One snagging point would be transalation of the model...abstraction....hmm...There's got to be some research project looking at this stuff hasn't there...Where's Q?

I'm still going to get this wrong....but while I'm talking about models I got confused by 'model-based testing' a while ago and I want to make a distinction. Documented Models that we can use to aid our manual testing I'm thinking 'Model-Assisted testing...'


A machine that automatically generates checks from a model I'm thinking 'Automated Check Generation'

A machine that automatically generates tests from a model I'm thinking 'Automated Test Generation'

Have you got any crazy-half baked ideas?

Oh and is it me or did OpenVolcano seem like Tribal Gathering? (was Jeff Sutherland Pete Tong?) and can we just call some agile methods something kool like 'Sunrise', 'Raindance' or 'Perception'

Crazy half-hour over......phew....