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Adopt SmartQA

Put modern assurance practices to work.

Ten immersions to learn probing through HyBIST, then five adoption practices to make it your everyday work on real projects, with Zoe as your coach, assessor and intelligent assistant for a full year.

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The shift

Upfront clarity. Accelerate with certainty.

AI has made building faster than ever. The risk has moved to what is unclear, unstated and assumed, and checking what is written down no longer catches it. Eliminating rework at the root starts with how you think as a tester.

From checking

  • Confirming what is stated
  • Test cases as the only tool
  • Quality judged at the end
  • Doing more to feel safe

To probing

  • Revealing what is unstated and assumed
  • Six kinds of probe, chosen with intent
  • Clarity sought upfront, as you work
  • Sensing sooner, with fewer detours

The Practice of Probing: the act of examining, investigating or exploring the entire lifecycle of building, from conceptualisation, building and assessment to deployment and monitoring in production.

Program outcome

Make probing your everyday practice

Learn probing through HyBIST, and over the year make it how you assure your own project work, not an exercise beside it.

Clearer requirements

Stories and specs that are complete and testable before build.

Sharper validation

Strategies and probes shaped by risk, not habit.

Reusable SmartChecks

Probes that serve developers early and system assurance later.

Continuous improvement

Defects, tests and probes analysed to improve practice and process.

How it works

Learn probing, then adopt it on your project

1 · Learn: ten immersions on your own work

Coached by an expert in live sessions, learn HyBIST through ten immersions. Pick one feature you are working on now and use it in every immersion, so each one builds on the last.

  1. 1The shift

    From checking to probing

    Start the shift, and see where you stand.

  2. 2Clarity

    Seeing clearly

    Understand intent before you test it.

  3. 3Reconnaissance

    Seeing the landscape

    Look broadly before you dive in.

  4. 4Deep dive

    Going deeper

    Examine behaviour, structure and use.

  5. 5Probe design

    Designing smart probes

    Turn understanding into purposeful probes.

  6. 6Probing

    Probing immersively

    Run focused, time-boxed sessions.

  7. 7Assess

    Judging the work

    Review probes and coverage honestly.

  8. 8Analyse

    Learning from evidence

    Read outcomes for meaning.

  9. 9Articulation

    Expressing clearly

    Make your probing visible.

  10. 10Making it stick

    Probing as a habit

    Partner with AI, and keep growing.

Each immersion, in five steps

1 · LearnSkillZone capsules, with Zoe as your coach
2 · Play & PractisePlayZone playlets and PracticeZone drills
3 · Try it at workOne task on your own feature
4 · Probe it with ZoeProbingZone, with Zoe as your intelligent assistant
5 · Check yourselfA diagnostic, with Zoe as your assessor

2 · Adopt: five practices on your live project

Then make probing part of your everyday work, using ProbingZone on your real requirements, probes, tests and defects.

  1. 1Clarify

    Sharpen a requirement

    Make it complete and testable before build begins.

  2. 2Probe

    Probe a requirement

    Find the issues, gaps and improvements while they are cheap to fix.

  3. 3Validate

    Shape strategy and probes

    From a requirement, form a validation strategy and the probes to carry it out.

  4. 4Reuse

    Formulate SmartChecks

    General-purpose probes (clarifying questions, directive SmartChecks, heuristics and test ideas) that serve early developer testing and later system assurance alike.

  5. 5Improve

    Learn from the evidence

    Analyse defects, test cases and probes to improve your practice, and your team’s process.

Each practice, in four steps

1 · Bring real workA requirement, a set of probes, tests or defects from your project
2 · Probe it with ZoeProbingZone, with Zoe as your intelligent assistant
3 · Act on itImprove the requirement, the probes or the process
4 · Check and reflectDiagnose your artefacts with Zoe as your assessor.
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