Now as I tester I find Excel to be a key tool in my daily work life. It is flexible and can be used for many different purposes. My main use of it however, was for writing test cases. My test cases in excel would be quite detailed and would look something like this: NOTE: The assumption for the above is that only the customers surname needs to be present for a customer record to be added, I know very unrealistic but done for simplicity :) Now as you can imagine this becomes very tedious and laborious when you have lots of test cases to write.I have started to get involved in the testing community by going to some local test meet-ups to talk all things testing with other testers as well as reading various blogs and articles. This has led me down a more exploratory approach to my testing and one in which Mind maps are a useful tool. Mind Mapping Now for those of you who don't know, a mind map is basically what older people would call a Brain Storm. It is a method