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For over two decades we have transformed how individuals, teams and organisations have practised testing. We espouse methodology to test intelligently. Our mission - Elevate to high performance via SmartQA.
It is about probing deeper to seek clarity and in the process uncover/preempt issues rapidly not limited to mere validation of code. It is about doing less to accomplish
more.
Hypothesis-Based Immersive Session Testing (HyBIST) is an intellectual practice of probing with TWELVE key concepts to design smart probes and FIVE key practices to probe smartly in short immersive sessions.
Via High end QA consulting to transform QA practice. Assisted by AI powered doSmartQA Assistant. To do less & accomplish more. To unlock higher business value. It is about mindset change, superior intellectual practice, skillful use of tools/tech and lean process to address challenges of Sr Engg/QA/Delivery Managers, Sr Test Practitioners/Leads and Test engineers via FOUR specific solutions.
doSmartQA ENTERPRISE | doSmartQA TEAM | doSmartQA INDIVIDUAL | doSmartQA Anytime | |
Enterprise transformation | QA team transformation | QA member transformation | Personal transformation | |
Target | Mgr,Dev,QA | Mgr,QA | QA | QA |
Approach | Coach-led | Self-paced | ||
Assist in implementation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Aided by AI-based tool doSmartQA Assistant | Enterprise edition | Personal Edition | ||
OUTCOMES | ||||
Scientific thinking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Superior test design | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Reduced escapes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Rich quality insights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Shift left | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Leverage Org capacity | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Smart Automation | ✓ | ✓ | ||
High maturity QA | Org wide | Team wide | Personal | Personal |
Transform Enterprise, Team, Individual assurance practice. Improve org-wide QA practice or Enhance QA/Dev practice in a team or Change mindsets & quality practice of QA/Dev. Address challenges of too much testing, defect escapes, test adequacy, shift left and excessive automation. A unique combination of diagnostic, coaching, deep learning with practice implementation aided by AI enabled doSmartQA Assistant. Available as FOUR solutions.
Deploy org-wide smart assurance practices
Deep diagnosis of ORG-wide practice/process, transformative coaching and hand holding implementation of SmartQA practices for the enterprise. Includes SmartQA Implementation Aids and SIX month free licence for doSmartQA Assistant Enterprise Edition.
Transform your team
to do smartQA
Deep diagnosis of specific TEAM practice/process, transformative coaching and hand holding implementation of SmartQA practices for the team. Includes SmartQA Implementation Aids and SIX month free licence for doSmartQA Assistant Enterprise Edition.
Enhance capabilities
to do smart QA.
Self diagnostic to aid reflection, transformative coaching and SmartQA Implementation aids with perpetual free licence for doSmartQA Personal Edition.
Self paced transformation to do smartQA
Self diagnostic to aid reflection, self-paced transformation with online support and personal SmartQA aids with perpetual free licence for doSmartQA Personal Edition.
An AI enabled assistant to do smart QA
Assists one to interrogate, hypothesise issues, design and evaluate user story or a set of stories in a sprint deeply and rapidly. It is not a typical test automation, documentation or management tool; it is an assistant for smart session-based testing.
Our work done with various customers over the years.
leading to lower defect escapes in seasonal releases, enhanced visibility of quality/risks to management and improved pride & ownership by QA.
to enable smooth integration of components developed by various teams and rollout large applications with low cutover
risk.
to find dormant issues that would have otherwise derailed certification, improving code coverage by 10+% on a well tested embedded system code.
by untangling test assets to optimise regression. Setup clear scope of dev and QA test, simplify documentation to ‘write less, think better & do smarter’.
Background A mature high technology company with Fortune-100 engineering companies as its customers, FOUR major global development centres with 75-strong mature engineering team, dedicated QA for three suites of products released seasonally two times a year.
The challenges were test case incompleteness leading to double digit customer issues resulting in rework, dev stage escapes forcing QA to do more, metrics curtailing advanced decision making, suboptimal test case architecture forcing excessive regression, difficulty in rapid dev of scripts due to lack of automation strategy and framework
Our recommendations and actions were were reorienting test strategy & planning, establishing a great foundation for test assets, fine-tuning their test repository, helping them with automation strategy and framework, enabling purposeful goal focussed metrics and strengthening their process and enabling effective test reviews.
The outcomes were stronger and effective QA evidenced by lowered defect escapes in subsequent seasonal releases, sharp visibility of quality and risks to management and improved pride and ownership by QA.
Background A large bespoke business systems application dev group building large scale IT systems using waterfall model with development spanning over a year.
The challenges were large applications cutover were not smooth resulting in issues that demanded enormous rework, implying 'akaji' i.e. business losses for the division. The objective was enhance the practice to testing to minimise surprises and ensure release confidence.
Our actions was a combination of expanding their mindset on how they approach testing via many workshops, upgrading their process, significantly enhancing their unit test practice and implementing a strong test asset review practice.
The outcomes were large application releases became smooth and business became profitable. The cutover was smooth with lot more issues early via unit test, systems testing strengthened significantly with test reviews closing the leaks. The practices first implemented in their Japanese centre was later implemented in their subsidiary in Phillipines.
BackgroundA German chip major with full product development centre in Bangalore developing IP for Smart Cards consisting of both Hardware, Firmware and Software API that needs to be certified by an external agency to ensure conformance to standard. Team of 50 seasoned engineers with deep engineering skills.
The challenge was to enhance test design effectiveness to enable higher coverage by adopting a scientific test engineering approach based on HBT (Hypothesis Based Testing methodology). The key issue was to ensure that external standards certification will go smoothly as any non-compliance would mean product will have to undergo re-certification, resulting in significant time loss, in addition to money. The engineering management was unable to ascertain test completeness and sufficiency, which was the prime motivation for engaging us.
Our actions was changing mindset of engineering team as how they can analyse and design scientifically, enable them to assess existing cases and add critical missing pieces. Re-visualising the strategy from multiple dimensions enabled them to probe deeper and find crevices that would leak some critical issues.
The outcomes were QA practice significantly improved to find dormant issues that would have otherwise derailed certification, and improving code coverage by 10+% on a well tested embedded system code.
Background The India centre is a key to a PE funded company that has multiple products catering to differing market segments in areas of CRM, Healthcare, Manufacturing. These products are not new ones, rather these have been around a decade plus with many Fortune 500 customers. The effort was split between ongoing maintenance support and tech/feature upgradation
The challenge was an enormous amount of regression, that was eating up time disallowing improvements curtailing effectiveness and efficiency.
Our actions was a untangling test assets to enable optimise regressions, setup clear scope of dev and QA team test, simplifying test documentation to 'write less, think better, do smarter'. This also enabled reducing complexity of automated scripts.
The outcomes were about 20% reduction in existing system test cases as they were moved to earlier stages (Dev/Unit) with real system test cases enhanced by 10%. Smart checklists enabled rapid and effective dev tests.
A rich collection of original content on smart assurance. eBooks for Senior Engg/QA managers, Sr Test Practitioner & Young Test Practitioners too. Profound nuggets of wisdom to think deeply, do rapidly & smartly for Test Practitioners.
A quick tour into the methodology that powers SmartQA. Outlines intellectual practice of probing via hypothesis based core method to analyse & design, and do immersively in sessions to test deeply & rapidly.
THIRTEEN suggestions addressing SIX key QA challenges that engineering managers grapple with.
TWELVE interesting and counter intuitive perspectives to High Performance QA, organised into FOUR themes of language, thinking, structure & doing
An interesting collection of FIFTY tips that spans across many dimensions to enable one to become “Smart Tester”.
Strip the jargons. Go deeper to grow. Become intellectually superior. Stand out of the pack. Unlearn to sharpen.
This unveils a transformative approach to QA blending creativity, minimalism & technical brilliance with practical insights and actionable tips.
This highlights growth as internal evolution and influence, emphasises shifting from efficiency to creativity, offers reinvention tips & shares leadership insights through analogies.
This delves into the mindset essential for designing testable software, shares actionable design practices for robustness & efficiency offering practical tips with heuristics.
It explores enhancing understanding by blending a broad, systemic view with a focused, detail-oriented approach, grounded in mindfulness and analysis.
This outlines the role of mindset & habits to clean coding, efficient testing and flow state for peak performance and suggests specific habits & mindset for QA/Dev.
“Solving problems is about finding clarity in chaos”. This distills essence of effective problem-solving into simple, actionable ideas.
Passionate about transforming the way clean code is produced, we publish a SmartQA Biweekly every fortnight, host a weekly webcast and have a dedicated online SmartQA Academy. For serious test practitioners we conduct “Higher Order Thinking Skills(HOTS) for SmartQA” program every quarter.
Self paced masterclasses to develop a probing mindset with superior HyBIST-based tools, for smarter QA, development & management.
A gentle flurry of interesting thoughts on smart assurance in a weekly webcast to broaden & deepen thoughts/actions.
Ignite your curiosity with fresh insights, thought-provoking ideas, and inspiring content delivered straight to your inbox every fortnight.
“Higher Order Thinking Skills” Program -16 week pro-bono coaching for serious
senior test practitioners.
Admission by invitation only.
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