39 tips to being productive – Do SmartQA
In an era where we are obsessed with productivity, it is not about doing more, of being busy that is deemed as high productivity.
Immersive Session Testing
In today’s world of frequent build & releases, testing in short sessions is a way to doing smarter. Immersive session testing is a style that exploits the logical left with creative right, enabling one to immerse deeply & test rapidly in short sessions. Consisting of three phases of Reconnaissance, Explore and Recoup it is a great combination of yin & yang to enable one to be a state of flow, to test brilliantly.
Deep dive to rapidly understand an entity
Deep dive is about going deeper, by reading available spec, by exploring, and using information from past experiences to understand an entity. This is done rapidly with a sharp focus and a 360 vision in eight steps.
The smart coverage framework
Coverage, an indicator of test effectiveness is really multidimensional and has not been dealt with rigour most often.
Smart Plan
Smart plan is simple & objective based – what entity to test, test for what issue(by conducting what test), test in what environment, test by whom (in case of a team),
Smart Understanding
Prevention occurs due to good understanding. Detection occurs due to good understanding.
Role of dedicated QA in the new age dev
In current times with rapid dev driven by Agile, with testing done by dev folks, is there a need for dedicated QA?
Smart design
Let us talk a bit of test design now. We focus a lot of execution, and therefore the ability to cover more.
Design for testability
Not only is it necessary to design the ‘how-to-do’, enabling ‘how-to-examine-the-doing’ is doing SmartQA.
Designing for robustness
Doing SmartQA is not just evaluation. It is about enabling code that is being built to be robust. To resist errors creeping in, to code-in firewalls