what's our status?
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My lightning talk for the Testing and Automation devroom at FOSDEM 2013: The red/green metaphor to indicate failed/successful jobs may seem obvious but it doesn't scale when trying to visualise the state of a complex system. After discussing the shortcomings of the current approach, we look at ideas for alternative visualisations and start defining requirements. This talk does not claim to have all the answers; It is a call for action, to seek help from the community.TRANSCRIPT
What's ourStatus?
Dirk HaunFOSDEM 2013
We are here
92 %
What aboutimportance?
Products
Wrong assumption:Green is the natural state
Requirements
✓ is easy to grasp
✓ not all jobs are equal
Boss
Support
Sysadmin
No one solution
Other industries?
I can has help plz?
CreditsPhotos and images, in order of appearance:
Lights! by Lawrence Rayner (Flickr),LED, Green and LED, Red by Bryan Nielsen (Open Clipart Library),Close up / Macro of four felt-tip-pencils in green, yellow, blue and orange by photosteve101 (Flickr),Box by Tony Clough (stock.xchng),Alone by Kevin Collins (Flickr),Business Hands by Oleg Prikhodko (iStockphoto File #379024),How may I help you? by Exact Image Limited (iStockphoto File #345416),Network technician performs preventive maintenance a server by maximili (iStockphoto File #20452635),Rings by Les Chatfield (Flickr),Control Room by Alaa Hamed (stock.xchng),(original source of the "help plz?" cat photo is unknown - please contact me if you have more information),Thank You by Margherita J. L. Lisoni (Flickr).
Presentation by Dirk Haun, www.themobilepresenter.comThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Please double-check the image licenses when remixing this presentation!