walkthrough madness: an introduction to all the amazing things you can do with a walkhub

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Imagine you could send your users a hyperlink that starts up a step by step walkthrough tutorial for pretty much any process they want to do on your site. Imagine you could embed those links into your documentation or even in a special contextual help block you display on your site. Imagine further that you can record how a feature works that you have just developed, or that your customer could send you a link to a walkthrough that reproduces a bug they've found. That is exactly what you can do with the WalkHub Drupal module. Writing documentation is probably one of the least favorite things developers do, but If you don't do it, you end up spending your time giving support on ridiculously simple issues instead. When we do documentation most of us spend hours and hours pasting screenshots into Google docs, then the theme or pictures change... With Walkthrough.it you can add a documentation layer on top of your website. You can play tutorials that guide people through your site, step by step. It's like a GPS for your website. And the best part is: you can use community tutorials and easily share and collaborate on common scenarios. In this session you will learn how you can record Walkthrough tutorials using Selenium IDE, an open source plugin for Firefox. How you can then edit them, share them and incorporate them into your website. I will also show how you can use Walkthroughs to create fairly complex scripts for repetitive tasks.

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Walkthrough MadnessAn introduction to all the amazing things you

can do with Walkthroughs

follow along at:http://goo.gl/Fe6kMe

Pronovix

Tours: the new big thing

Raised $ 11’567

Why all the hype?

Video tutorials● Interactive● Lots of context● Visual

Text tutorials● Editable● Searchable● Comment-able● Translatable

Traditional options

Common issues

● Visuals change● Hard to keep up to date

● The 2 windows issue● Require interpretation

=> DOUBT

=> COGNITIVE LOAD

Tours are in place and

up to date

The real problem withDocumentation is...

$ ?!?

Reminds me off...

Feature testing has this same problem

it has a few more problems...

But seriously, how do we pay for this?

Tests

Documentation

Demo

Script to test if it still works

Script to explain how it works

Script to show that it works=

=

=

So what if we could combine these 3 into 1?

verifiableTests

up-to-dateDocumentation

AutomatedDemo

Walkthrough

+ +

=

How?

● Play a walkthrough

● Creating Walkthroughs○ from Selenium

● Creating steps○ Step highlight

○ Selenium command

Demo

● Adjusting Walkthroughs○ Adding steps

○ Changing step order

● Parameters

○ Share a link with parameters

○ Adding Parameters

Demo

You want to buy a WalkHub?

You CAN’T

It’s Open Source

you can support our work though :)

sign up: eepurl.com/uYjy9

Follow us: @WalkHub

Contact us: info@pronovix.com

Media sources● http://upload.wikimedia.

org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Prague_Astronomical_Clock%2C_Prague_Orloj_picture-005.JPG

● http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/MiniHouseOfCards.jpg/800px-MiniHouseOfCards.jpg

● http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Box_Elder_bugs.jpg/800px-Box_Elder_bugs.jpg

● http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obsolete_road_and_sign_-_geograph.org.uk_-_450380.jpg

● http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Line3174_-_Shipping_Containers_at_the_terminal_at_Port_Elizabeth%2C_New_Jersey_-_NOAA.jpg/800px-Line3174_-_Shipping_Containers_at_the_terminal_at_Port_Elizabeth%2C_New_Jersey_-_NOAA.jpg

● http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saved_(Boston_Public_Library).jpg

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