These nine skills are about testing and fixing. Each name is the label on the puzzle piece.
- Test before trusting. Test an idea before trusting it.
- Find what went wrong. Find what went wrong.
- Improve with feedback. Make an idea better with feedback.
- Predict, then check. Predict what will happen, then check.
- Change one thing at a time. Change one thing and see what happens.
- Try many situations. Test an idea in more than one situation.
- Compare with expected. Compare a result with what was expected.
- Learn from a failed test. Learn from a test that did not work.
- Check the fix worked. Check that a fix really worked.
Four of these pieces open the Robot Repair Bench: Find what went wrong, Change one thing at a time, Learn from a failed test, and Check the fix worked. See The Robot Repair Bench.
