CHARTER: FM000A-001 Free Mind ----------------------------------------------- Identify capabilities and areas of potential instability of Freemind. Exercise each capability identified with data typical to the intended use of the application. ENVIRONMENT OS Windows XP Build version 0.8.0 ** used second workstation to capture notes. START ----------------------------------------------- 02/08/2008 8:50am-10:30am TEST NOTES ----------------------------------------------- ** capture screen shot of FreeMind version to ensure the right version of the tool is being used ! FM: reminder to take all screen shots and bundle in zip file with test notes 1) determine capabilities to best divide time, use 15 minutes to: review application menus brief review of help file for index of topics as an indication look at website to see what the product claims it does MENU REVIEW create map new, open, save, import, export, revert, print create encrypted maps (can I find what encryption tool it uses, is this feature important? import: options are not clear, will use help file to see what I can learn find when a map gets large being able to find can be valuable, allocate time to ensure find works with large map does find work on images that are brought in, or just on strings entered directly? view and navigate menus appear to offer ways of working around large maps also table of key mappings offers more navigation methods - print out to use as reference show modification times could be interesting feature extensive preference settings available noticed main view is configurable as I've seen the tool before and yet the appearance is different, capture both screens for compare? do not recall setting preferences, what explains these main view differences? modes - quick selection change, not apparent what this feature offers, help file reference seems to disqualify feature HELP FILE REVIEW other features detected from review graphical links Online review of features: uncovered maps created by other people. Q: can I save and import existing maps from others? A: no, can only import file types of mm, could capture screen shots - not worth time ! KNJ: note to client that there are mutliple samples for viewing online, provide links WEBSITE REVIEW did not pickup on new features from website did note a forum and bug reporting is available online ! KNJ: note to client there is a forum to learn more, provide link to forum - before providing link check: 1) when was th forum last updated, 2) are bugs on the older version (v 0.8.0 is not most recent) still being reported, does newer version address issues of concern? 9;15AM begin building first map Create map create child node save, edit exported imported but unexpected arrow appears not the actual import of the branch extended paste shows buffered keyboard in use, quickly created large map at what point are the branch hard to navigate? at what point, is printing difficult? revert created map, save as to use map to test revert with revert appears to be within session edits only, compares to undo encrypted map root of the map name changed to select me to continue was able to copy and paste root while encrypted not clear how to return to original root name on map icons list of available icons could be helpful found when I applied an icon on a node that I was not able to edit the node and remove the icon unclear how to clear the icon time check: 9:50am experimented with inserting images found restrictions on file extensions found once large images are brought into a map that the file becomes unwieldy and hard to navigate cannot envision using the tool for capturing notes during testing do not find the app to be friendly to image insert found multi-level branches lose their sense of hierarchical structure, hard to see structure, branches too subtle also found relocating nodes to be cumbersome - hard to get the focus in the "roght" place once the focus is set, moiving is not soo difficult worked with inserting links and hyper links found the arrows added are confusing, expected to see URL address with a hyperlink, clicking on links brought up browser encountered extreme app slowness when shifting view to 50% - once screens loaded in a map time check: 10:15 what have I not seen? Find and naviagation appears where the cursor is positioned could impact ability to find items DATA FILES ----------------------------------------------- will include maps created, screen shots and links as noted. BUGS ----------------------------------------------- #N/A ISSUES ----------------------------------------------- #N/A