Smart QA Practice

Customer issues slowing your rapid development cycle? Technical debts swamping your effort? Want to sharpen your QA practice?
To enable engineering to deliver more features, not just fix issues?

Testing slowing you down?

Think automation will fix it?

Well it takes more than that.

It is not about being faster, to do more testing, it is the opposite.
It is not about uncovering more technical debt, it is the opposite.

It takes human intelligence with machine assistance to be effective, efficient and preventive.
Uncover key issues, quickly and early. It is about doing SmartQA .
“Do less. Accomplish more”.

Ok, how is my practice?

What are typical solutions and their challenges?

#1 Regress frequently. Automate.
Certainly helps to ensure health is not compromised by frequent changes.

But, is that good enough? After all, automated tests execute the same path and cannot find newer issues.

#2 Do more unscripted testing.
Certainly helps to dig into context and do better testing.

Is it good enough? Well, when it veers into ad-hoc testing, efficacy may not be as good it should be.

#3 Strengthen process with tools.
Certainly helps to relook at process, tighten and streamline it.

Is it good enough? Well process is great, but it is the practice that is key to brilliant outcomes.

How can we help?

Strengthen your test design practice to lower escapes
Augment practice with Immersive Session Testing to test rapidly
Enable in-sprint automation to check rapidly
Sharpen practice with measures to steer continuously
Help you do less by organising & leveraging assets

Case studies

“Transform QA practice
to better, faster & lesser“
leading to lower defect escapes in seasonal releases, enhanced visibility of quality/risks to management and improved pride & ownership by QA.

“Enhance coverage,
reduce escapes“
to find dormant issues that would have otherwise derailed certification, improving code coverage by 10+% on a well tested embedded system code.

“Find issues early
via brilliant dev tests“
to enable smooth integration of components developed by various teams and rollout large applications with low cutover risk.

“Reduce testing
to deliver rapidly”
by untangling test assets to optimise regression. Setup clear scope of dev and QA test, simplify documentation to ‘write less, think better & do smarter’.

So, how does this work? – Engagement model

ASSESS & PLAN

Discussions with senior management to understand problems/expectations

Deep dive into process & practice via interviews, survey & walk-thru of assets

Publish assessment report, the current baseline

Outline actions, timelines, support needed

DO & TRANSFORM

SmartQA orientation- Masterclass for all Product owners, Leads/Mgmt, Dev & QA

Discuss and agree on transformation action plan

Weekly coaching/mentoring/doing sessions for all teams

Publish tips/guidelines/sample documents to aid transformation

Sprint wise data collection & analysis, weekly review

CONCLUDE & SUSTAIN

Publish improvements referenced against the baseline

Identify champions for sustaining this the next SIX months

Publish cheat sheets for Dev, QA, and management of agreed upon practice

Publish metrics to steer and to measure outcomes

Do you face these challenges?

Grappling with too much testing?

Challenged by test adequacy?

Troubled by development test?

Weighed down by automation?

Testing slowing you down?

Would you like to fix it? Happy to discuss with you.

Yes, I would like to discuss

Smart QA Practice

Testing slowing you down?

Think automation will fix it?

What are typical solutions and their challenges?

How can we help?

Case studies

So, how does this work? – Engagement model

ASSESS & PLAN

DO & TRANSFORM

CONCLUDE & SUSTAIN

Do you face these challenges?

Grappling with too much testing?

Challenged by test adequacy?

Troubled by development test?

Weighed down by automation?

Testing slowing you down?

Solutions

SmartQA

Email

Address

View location

Contact us