1. Source for this mindmap is Michael Bolton's Time for new Test Ideas http://developsense.com/articles/2006-05-TimeForNewTestIdeas.pdf
2. Data-flow
   1. blocking
   2. buffering
   3. bursts
   4. concurrency
   5. queuing
   6. dequeuing
   7. spooling
   8. timeouts
3. Financial & Business
   1. annual percentage rate
   2. business day
   3. business week
   4. calendar day
   5. close of business
   6. compound interest
   7. due date
   8. end of quarter
   9. fiscal year
   10. interest
   11. month end
   12. opening day
   13. payment period
   14. quarter
   15. sell-by date
   16. service level agreements
   17. simple interest
   18. start of business
   19. tax year
   20. warranty period
   21. year end
4. Holiday (US)
   1. civic
   2. religious holidays
   3. statutory holidays
   4. Christmas
   5. holiday pay
   6. spring break
   7. New Year’s Eve
   8. New Year’s Day
   9. vacation
   10. weekend
5. Instrument
   1. atomic clock
   2. alarm clock
   3. calendar
   4. chronograph
   5. chronometer
   6. clock
   7. egg timer
   8. fuse
   9. hourglass
   10. metronome
   11. microwave
   12. speedometer
   13. stopwatch
   14. sundial
   15. tachometer
   16. wristwatch
   17. VCR
6. Lifetime
   1. adult
   2. age
   3. aging
   4. archaic
   5. birth
   6. child
   7. death
   8. inheritance
   9. legacy
   10. minor
   11. senior
   12. retired
7. Operating systems
   1. concurrency
   2. critical region
   3. idle time
   4. mutex
   5. preemption
   6. refresh
   7. rate
   8. round-robin
   9. semaphore
   10. synchronization
   11. threads
   12. time
   13. sharing
   14. time slicing
   15. timer ticks
8. Rates
   1. acceleration
   2. deceleration
   3. degradation
   4. frequency
   5. speed
   6. hits per second
   7. transactions per hour
   8. bits per second
   9. velocity
9. Relationships
   1. after
   2. before
   3. current
   4. during
   5. early
   6. faster
   7. fastest
   8. frequency
   9. future
   10. interruptions
   11. late
   12. past
   13. present
   14. slower
   15. slowest
   16. slowing down
   17. speeding up
10. Schedules
    1. alarms
    2. alerts
    3. appointments
    4. deadlines
    5. slack time
11. Time zones
    1. Daylight saving time (DST)
    2. GMT
    3. local time
    4. standard time
    5. time zone exceptions
    6. UTC
12. Units of measure
    1. picoseconds to nanoseconds
    2. microseconds
    3. milliseconds
    4. seconds
    5. minutes
    6. hours
    7. days
    8. weeks
    9. months
    10. quarters
    11. seasons
    12. years
    13. decades
    14. centuries
    15. millennia
    16. epochs
    17. hertz
    18. baud