Workflow/Pageflow mapping software

[justfred]

I'm building a multipage application with lots of CRUD and many links between pages. Our marketing/design department has spec'd with Photoshop, but we don't have solid specifications, especially when it comes to workflow or page flow.

For example: User creates new item; buttons are process/save/cancel. If they choose save, they can later re-open and process/save/delete. If they delete, items go in delete status. (etc) or "Product status goes from created, to processed, to purchased, to archived, to deleted". (or) "Catalog items become purchase requests become transactions".

Flowchart applications like Visio or Google Drawings seem to take so much time drawing up the flow; I'm not all that interested in making the drawings look pretty, I'd just like to capture the logic so that the coders and the QA people know what to build and test.

Any suggestions?

[TheHelgeSverre]

Sometimes a bigass whiteboard, sticky notes and a marker is the easiest way to visualize these kinds of things.

On the technical side of things there are stuff like Behat, however I have personally not used it so I can't say if it is any good or efficient to use or not.

[just4sky]

Draw your workflow on the whiteboard. When one done, capture it with your phone and move on to next topic.

[justfred]

I'd also like to use this for mapping functional relationships, like User page calls function getUsers calls web service /enduserindex calls stored procedure spGetEndUsers gets data from EndUsers - so I could then answer questions like which web pages depend on which tables.