#19 : “The winds of change”

Posted on June 28, 2019November 6, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Welcome to a Special Edition of SmartQA Digest on ‘CHANGE’. The SmartBites has the wisdom of Jawahar, Sudhir & Vivek on changing to the new age of QA. The featured article takes an interesting look at the role of language to high performance QA. Enjoy the poster inspired by falling leaves of autumn.Thank you for reading, please do forward to anyone who you think values brilliant quality.

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High-performance thinking using the power of language

August 19, 2019

This is the first article in the series of twelve articles “XII Perspectives to High-Performance QA”, outlining interesting & counter-intuitive perspectives to high-performance QA aligned

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#18 – “Accessibility #2”

Posted on June 21, 2019November 6, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Welcome to another edition of SmartQA Digest, the Second of TWO part theme on “Accessibility”. Listen to Anuradha Biswas’s video on “the HOW of accessibility”. The featured article is also on “HOW to validate accessibility”.

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Role of Abilities, Checklists & Tests for Accessibility

June 26, 2019

Evaluating accessibility by using only able-bodied people(testers) or by enabling accessibility only via use of checklists are not useful. The simplest tests to ensure a complex application is well covered via ‘only testing using the keyboard’, ‘relying on the spoken word to navigate’, ‘using high contrast mode of display’ & ‘disabling certain options in the browser’ (for web apps). This article is the curated from four interesting articles.

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#17 – “Accessibility #1”

Posted on June 14, 2019November 6, 2023 by SmartQA Community

SmartQA Digest

Welcome to another edition of SmartQA Digest, the First of TWO part theme on “Accessibility”. Listen to Anuradha Biswas’s passionate exposition on accessibility. The featured article is a curation of SIX interesting articles on this theme. Hope you like the poster on ‘Accessibility’ !

We have enhanced the SmartQA Digest with brilliant galleries of all the SmartBites, Posters, Articles. See the NEW “smartbits” gallery. Check these out at the end of SmartQADigest page.

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Interesting articles on Accessibility

June 21, 2019

This article is a collection of interesting aspects on accessibility curated form a set of SIX articles covering “What is accessibility”, “Six steps to create accessible designs”, “Ethical design”, “Dos and don’ts on designing for accessibility”, “Ten tips for making website accessible” and “How to create interfaces that benefit all”.

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#16 – “Being Agile #2”

Posted on June 7, 2019November 6, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Welcome to another edition of SmartQA Digest, the second of TWO part theme on “Being Agile”. Listen to Tathagat Varma’s beautiful exposition of philosophy, mindset, culture, automation… Inspired by Matryoshka doll is the featured article “15 Facets to Problem Solving”. Hope you like the poster on ‘Agility’ !

We have enhanced the SmartQA Digest with brilliant galleries of all the SmartBites, Posters, Articles. See the NEW “smartbits” gallery. Check these out at the end of SmartQA Digest page.

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15 Facets to Problem Solving

June 14, 2019

We use many terms like philosophy, mindset, framework, models, process, practice, techniques etc in SW dev/test. This article attempts to simplify and put together a nice image of how they all fit in, to enable clear thinking for brilliant problem solving.

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#15 – “Being Agile #1”

Posted on May 31, 2019November 6, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Welcome to another edition of SmartQA Digest, the first of TWO part theme on “Being Agile”. Listen to Tathagat Varma’s as he beautifully demystifies Agile and read the interesting featured article on “3 Ideas to Staying Agile”. Enjoy the ‘fluid’ poster!

We have enhanced the SmartQA Digest with brilliant galleries of all the SmartBites, Posters, Articles. See the NEW “smartbits” gallery. Check these out at the end of SmartQA Digest page.

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3 Ideas to Staying Agile – “Compass, Cadence, Ownership”

June 6, 2019

In today’s world of constant change, staying agile is paramount to meaningful response. This article outlines how a Compass tool, the practice of Cadence and mindset of Ownership can help you stay agile.

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#14 : “A confluence of interesting opinions”

Posted on May 24, 2019November 6, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Welcome to this SmartQA Digest that is a confluence of interesting opinions. A featured article outlining views from 8 people, SmartBites containing 7 interesting opinions and the poster voicing 50+ people opinions ! A great confluence.

We have enhanced the SmartQA Digest with brilliant galleries of all the SmartBites, Posters, Articles and a NEW “smartbits” gallery. Check these out at the end of SmartQA Digest page.

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Role of human intellect in the digital age

May 30, 2019

T Ashok @ash_thiru Over the last few months, as a producer of SmartBites for the SmartQA channel, I asked a question to EIGHT senior software

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digest #13 : “Delivering Clean Code #2”

Posted on May 17, 2019November 6, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Welcome to SmartQA Digest continuing on the theme of “Delivering Clean Code”. Raja Nagendra Kumar discusses what it takes to deliver clean code dwelling on skills, innovation, outsourcing development models.

The featured article “10 things to be sensitive to deliver brilliant code” outlines the mindset to deliver brilliant code.

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10 things to be sensitive to deliver brilliant code

May 24, 2019

Great code is not result of mere unit/dev testing at the early stage. It is really a mindset that is key to producing brilliant code. This article outlines ten things that a developer should be very sensitive to enable the delivery of brilliant code.

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digest #12 – “Delivering Clean Code #1”

Posted on May 10, 2019November 6, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Welcome to SmartQA Digest on the theme of “Delivering Clean Code”. Raja Nagendra Kumar discusses what it takes to deliver clean code. The featured article “10 Simple Tips to Clean Code” is about simple practices to ensure that code developed is constantly cleansed. This is a two part series with the first one featured this week.

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10 Simple Tips to Clean Code

May 17, 2019

by T Ashok @ash_thiru on Twitter SummaryAs much as testing is seen as a key activity to deliver quality, there are simple practices that can

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#11 : “The changing face of testing”

Posted on May 3, 2019November 6, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Welcome to the SmartQA Digest on the theme of “The changing face of testing”. Vivek Mathur outlines his thoughts on changes in testing due to the changing landscape of dev.The featured article “12 tips to reinvent yourself in testing” outlines tips for test practitioner to reinvent.

Yay, we crossed our first two-digit mark. Yes, this is the 11th!

I would be delighted to receive your comments. Thank you /Ashok.

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12 tips to reinvent yourself in testing

May 10, 2019

T Ashok (ash_thiru on Twitter) SummaryThe way we build systems has changed, both in terms of technology and the process. The expectations of end users/businesses

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#10 : “Reinventing yourself ”

Posted on April 26, 2019November 6, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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“Reinventing yourself“. In these rapidly changing times, reinvention is key to staying relevant. Anuj Magazine says reinvention has to be treated as a skill, with the ability to unlearn.The featured article “How do I grow in my QA career?” complements this.

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How do I grow in my QA career?

May 3, 2019

T Ashok, @ash_thiru Summary:What is growth? Is it money, position, power or the confidence to get anything done? Growth is not just knowing more, it

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