It’s a preluding encore for fresh pair of eyes and ears. It’s the starting point for future managers cutting through corporate jargon with a fetish to capture keen business acumen. Future aspirations rest on this pivotal foundation that elicits total assimilation to reach as far as an inkling of convoluted process flows of business. Every [...]

With the growing competition in the QA services market there is always a question of “What is a company’s differentiator”, “what value add does it bring to the table”? In my opinion whether to oust competition or not a true value add that a services company can bring in is to play a consultative role [...]

In a couple of my recent blogs, I had talked about exploratory testing, making it interesting and effective on your ongoing projects
In this blog post, I would like to extend this idea to companies taking a social responsibility in contributing back to the community that they belong to. As part of its day to day [...]

As I was coining this title, a number of ideas breezed through my thought process. Investments are often dissected from various viewpoints – short vs. long term, tangible vs. intangible, engineering vs. non engineering etc. In this blog I will be talking about a very important investment for every company, regardless of its size, scale, [...]

Software as a Service (SaaS) has been an evolving trend we’ve been seeing over the last 2 years or so. Its increasing popularity can be attributed to several reasons such as: evolving cloud technology, need for optimization of resources and on-demand usage, global expansion of business that necessitates a platform to bring its people together,  [...]

With the really short release cycles in the Agile development world, the QA team is always time crunched to complete its test passes on time. In this blog I will be covering some core points, which if implemented successfully will give the QA team a face lift, in not just testing the product on time, [...]

Having talked about promoting the use of exploratory testing in your teams in my last post, I next want to touch upon how to interpret the results of exploratory testing as unless this is done in an informed manner, to the untrained eye, it may reflect badly on the overall test coverage:
1.       Timing of the [...]

Localization testing has gained a lot of momentum and market share in the recent years, thanks to ISVs who have been focusing on global launch of their products. Amongst the competitive forces that significantly determine the product launch, “time to market” is a very important criterion.  Very often ISVs are time crunched in their testing [...]

This was an interesting discussion I had with one of my customers recently. His positioning was for the engineering team to take on pseudo localization testing and for the linguistic experts to take on linguistic testing. While there is value to this argument from an optimization and ROI grounds, I want to talk in this [...]