Model Common Understanding

Be Mindful of Decision Gates

Use visual representations, to garner a common understanding of what the process should look like. What we're doing is we're visualising everything. So what we've had to do is actually double up with the Logic Gates in terms of wanting sugar and wanting milk. The reason we're doing, this is because we need to put it all into a visual representation. So once you've finished with your preliminary model, what you need to do then is to start thinking about creating some tests or user stories.

In this video, Huw Price introduces techniques that you can use to test every scenario along various paths of a model. This features ahead of the subsequent clip, which shows the use of Rules as a way of limiting the amount of possible scenarios, but equally how a mixed approach using Rules with Logic Gates can be used to inform best practice modelling when executing test steps.

Overlay Logic to Reduce Repetition

Where the previous clip introduced a fully visual model, Logic Gates though had to be repeated, which may be tricky to maintain. So Boolean states are a more embedded solution and though less overtly visualized - you have to look at the Boolean logic itself - if you're only interested in the User Stories or Test Cases, that's the way to go.

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