6 - Preparing a tree for testing

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln

We may be testing an existing tree (e.g. the structure of our existing site) or trying out some new trees (revised, or completely rethought) to see how well they work.

In either case, our tree will need to be prepared for testing. In many cases, this is just a matter of minor housekeeping (importing the tree into a spreadsheet, excluding certain headings like “Search”, and so on), but sometimes we need to make some bigger decisions about our tree (e.g. whether to prune a large tree).

In this chapter, we’ll cover everything we need to consider when preparing a tree for testing.

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