Visual Flow Builder for Testing processes or artefacts or workflows

[christinepinto]

Hey everyone
I’ve been thinking about a feature idea and would love your feedback, especially since I’ve personally never used flowcharts or visual diagrams much in my testing work.

Concept:

• Users click to add components to a visual canvas.
• Each component represents a test step/task.
• A test task or a test charta auto-generates in a sidebar.

Key Parts:

• Drag, Click, Drop Interface – Create flows visually with ease
• Inline Input Fields – Add test data, preconditions, or notes right on each step
• Sidebar Preview – See a detailed test task being built live as you go
• AI Feedback – Get suggestions on missing steps or unclear logic
• Edit Anywhere – Make changes from the canvas or sidebar
• Templates – Duplicate & save common flows for reuse

I’d love to know:

• Do you use visuals (diagrams, flows, maps) to plan or explain your tests today?
• What would make a feature or tools like this actually helpful in practice?

Appreciate any thoughts, experiences, or even doubts you want to share!
@parwalrahul adding you here as I know you are the master of mind maps

[parwalrahul (Rahul Parwal)]

This is the most useful feature for testers imo.

I use visual modeling almost daily.

Visual modeling opens new perspective on testing.

Also, once the model is there, there are a lot of possibilities that the tool can help with.

[sebastian_solidwork (Sebastian Stautz)]

IMO TestCompass covers parts of that and has some nice features in addition.

@christinepinto

Do you use visuals (diagrams, flows, maps) to plan or explain your tests today?

I do. All of them depending on the topic I’m on.

[hananurrehman]

@christinepinto

Do you use visuals (diagrams, flows, maps) to plan or explain your tests today?

I have switched to visual heavy test planning now. It just makes dependency tracking so much easier.

@christinepinto

• A test task or a test charta auto-generates in a sidebar.

This would actually be very useful. The user will just have to map out the necessary data points while the tool generates test activities for them. Another benefit would be realising if one has missed something or if they went on an incorrect path.

[danuk (Dan)]

Seems expensive, for UK folk anyway

[hemanto (Hemant)]

Fantastic! I love the idea. That could be a gem of testers’ and developers’ testing toolkit. I also draw those flow diagrams on Excalidraw to bring clarity, find gaps, and build and share understanding of a system flow and sometimes use Chatgpt to cover it for me. Having AI feedback built-in will make it a complete tool. Good luck!

[parwalrahul (Rahul Parwal)]

I see someone mentioned TestCompass.

It’s a fantastic tool.

We also have an MoT blog post about it. Check it out here:

Skyrocket Your Test Coverage With Model-Based Testing Using | Ministry of Testing

[kristof (Kristof Van Kriekingen)]

@christinepinto

Do you use visuals (diagrams, flows, maps) to plan or explain your tests today?

Hell yeah! Super useful, especially to explain the app to someone else.
+1 for the feature!

[andybassett (Andrew Bassett)]

I use visuals like this a lot now. As the old saying goes “a picture paints a thousands words”.
I also even use a pen a paper to quickly make rough designs prior to designing using a tool.

[jessicam]

I’ve been using a tool called Milanote since our setup did not initially have this but trying to explain things to my PM I used it and it’s stuck. I’ve been teaching my team to use it more and they love it.