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#49

Posted on January 31, 2020November 3, 2023 by SmartQA Community

SmartQA Digest

In this week’s SmartBites, Yuvaraj Thanikachalam outlines as to what Blockchain is, why this is considered a revolutionary technology, what businesses could benefit from this and the challenges to adopting this in the video “Blockchain – the technology“.

In the beEnriched section is a short primer on Blockchain outlining ‘What is blockchain technology’, ‘How does it work’ and ‘Where is it useful’. Checkout the article “Blockchain – What, How & Where“.

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Blockchain – What, How & Where

January 31, 2020

This article is a short primer on Blockchain outlining ‘What is blockchain technology’, ‘How does it work’ and ‘Where is it useful’. Curated from four articles which are nice and easy reads.

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Sketchnote

August 29, 2019

Sketchnotes are purposeful doodling while listening to something interesting. Sketchnotes don’t require high drawing skills, but do require a skill to visually synthesize and summarize via shapes, connectors, and text. Sketchnotes are as much a method of note taking as they are a form of creative expression.

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#48

Posted on January 24, 2020November 3, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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“Healthy code is not the outcome of review or testing, it is from doing simple things diligently.” What is healthy and what are habits that we embrace to stay healthy? If we correlate this to code what does this mean, is what this pictorial article “Seven habits to healthy code” is about.

In this week’s SmartBits, Shivaji outlines”Key trends in automation“.

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Seven habits to healthy code

January 23, 2020

Healthy code is not about just working correctly. It is about future-proofing, maintainability, adaptability, reusability and so on. As in real life where face shines when you are in the pink of health, beautiful code also shines!

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Necessary but not sufficient book

Necessary but not Sufficient

January 10, 2020

I have been a great fan of Dr Goldratt having read all this books, my favourite being his first book “The Goal”. This book “Necessary but not Sufficient” is written as a “business novel” and shows the fictional application of the Theory of Constraints to Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and operations software and organizations using that software.

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#47

Posted on January 17, 2020November 3, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Deep dive to rapidly understand an entity is this week’s beEnriched section article. What is Deep dive? It 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.

In this week’s SmartBits, Zulfikar talks about “T he challenges of legacy code” .

Check out the beautiful poster with quote by Bob Moawad that says “Quality begins on the inside… then works its way out.”

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Deep Dive into software testing

Deep dive to rapidly understand an entity

January 16, 2020

Deep dive is about going deeper by going through available spec, by exploring it, and using information from past experiences to rapidly understand an entity. This is done rapidly with a sharp focus and a 360 vision in eight steps.

expandMind

Necessary but not sufficient book

Necessary but not Sufficient

January 10, 2020

I have been a great fan of Dr Goldratt having read all this books, my favourite being his first book “The Goal”. This book “Necessary but not Sufficient” is written as a “business novel” and shows the fictional application of the Theory of Constraints to Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and operations software and organizations using that software.

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#46

Posted on January 10, 2020November 3, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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The sufficiency of test cases has always been an interesting challenge.The cliched notion of code coverage is sadly insufficient, being an unidimensional measure. “The smart coverage framework” outlines a refreshingly simple picture as a smart coverage framework.

In this edition of SmartBites are four snippets of brilliant advice from Sudhir, Zulfikar, Girish & Jawahar – “Have extreme ownership mindset”, “Focus on the big picture”, “Build with quality, not test after” and “Understand operating conditions & implementation to test well” as SmartAdvice #1.

Oh, in this week’s SmartBits, Srinivasan Desikan outlines “The evolution of dev” and what it means to testing.

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SmartQA smart coverage pic

The smart coverage framework

January 9, 2020

T Ashok @ash_thiru on Twitter Summary Coverage, an indicator of test effectiveness is really multidimensional and has not been dealt with rigour most often(excepting for

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Necessary but not sufficient book

Necessary but not Sufficient

January 10, 2020

I have been a great fan of Dr Goldratt having read all this books, my favourite being his first book “The Goal”. This book “Necessary but not Sufficient” is written as a “business novel” and shows the fictional application of the Theory of Constraints to Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and operations software and organizations using that software.

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#45

Posted on December 27, 2019November 3, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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What does it take to do SmartQA? Smart Thinking, Smart Understanding, Smart Design, Smart Plan, SmartQA Test Organisation and Smart Planning. A pictorial article on this is what this week’s beEnriched article “7 Pictures to Doing SmartQA” is.

In this week’s SmartBites “Lean thinking & Agility“, Tathagat Varma outlines how Agile inspired by lean thinking is accomplishing agility in SW development.

Isn’t it amazing that earth just goes about the job quietly, of revolving around the sun a whopping distance of 940 million kms every year? A joy it is to pause and ponder the amazing cosmic wonder, and celebrate as it commences another revolution around the sun. On this happy occasion of a new beginning, enjoy the poem that I wrote titled “Bless us all”.

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7 Pictures to 'doing SmartQA

7 Pictures to ‘Doing SmartQA’

January 3, 2020

A mashup of three articles published as part of SmartQA digest over the last few months that outlines mindsets needed to brilliant code, tips to produce clean code and habits to speed up evaluation

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The Art of Profitability book cover

Approximate thinking

September 20, 2019

A beautiful book that taught me “Approximate thinking” of how to rapidly approximate and get facts to analyse further.

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#44

Posted on December 20, 2019November 3, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Great code occurs due to a brilliant confluence of clean code mindset, good heuristics/tips and healthy software engineering habits. This week’s beEnriched section article 10 mindsets, 10 tips & 10 habits to clean code connects these using articles that were published earlier.

It is not a great working solution, it is not brilliant technology that makes deployment of an enterprise solution successful, it is ‘operationalising’ that is key to success says Zulfikar in the smartbits video “Operationalising is key“.

Oh, this week’s SmartBites is “10 Thoughts” on Agile mindset, metrics, AI, good vs bad code, “what is technical after all” and others from ten wonderful practitioners.

Hope you have checked out the new SmartQA web site at smartqa.community? Guess you have noticed that all prior digests are also available here !

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10 mindsets, 10 tips & 10 habits to clean code

December 26, 2019

A mashup of three articles published as part of SmartQA digest over the last few months that outlines mindsets needed to brilliant code, tips to produce clean code and habits to speed up evaluation

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Black box thinking

November 14, 2019

Learning from failures .The inside story of how success really happens and how we cannot grow unless we learn from our mistakes.

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#43

Posted on December 13, 2019November 3, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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Prevention occurs due to good understanding. Detection occurs due to good understanding. Understanding of what is needed, what is stated and what is implemented. The beEnriched section article outlines two tools for doing this – “TWO tools to aid smart understanding“.

Testability impacts deliverability. When it’s easier for testers to locate issues, it gets debugged more quickly, application gets to the user faster and without hidden glitches Listen to the short video “D esign for testability” from Girish Elchuri in this week’s smartbits.

Oh, this week’s SmartBites is about “Expectations from enterprise customers and what it means to QA” from Sriramadesikan.

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TWO tools to aid smart understanding

December 20, 2019

T Ashok @ash_thiru Summary Doing SmartQA is about great mental clarity of visualising what is intended, what is present, what-may-be-missing that could-be added to enhance

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Black box thinking

November 14, 2019

Learning from failures .The inside story of how success really happens and how we cannot grow unless we learn from our mistakes.

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#42

Posted on December 6, 2019October 27, 2023 by SmartQA Community

SmartQA Digest

I had an interesting discussion with an engineering director of a product company on the subject – “dedicated QA or non-dedicated QA”. He was keen on a strong development QA as part of engineering team with an additional dedicated(small) QA team, and was seeking opinions. That triggered the thought for this interesting article “Role of dedicated QA in the new age dev” in the beEnriched section.

Simplification is hard, and can drive innovation. Listen to the 3-minute video “Simplify, Innovation happens” from Raja Nagendra Kumar in this week’s smartbits.

Have you watched the video on inclusive design titled “Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design” that was published last week?

Did you check out the new SmartQA site smartqa.community All the prior digests are also available now here !

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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? What is dedicated QA really? What should be the value adding dedicated QA be in the new age dev?
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Black box thinking

November 14, 2019

Learning from failures .The inside story of how success really happens and how we cannot grow unless we learn from our mistakes.

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#41

Posted on November 29, 2019November 3, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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What does it take to do SmartQA? Thoughtful pause, multidimensional thinking, sensitivity and awareness and designing for robustness/testability. A short crisp article continuing from the prior article outlining five more thoughts on what it takes to do SmartQA. Doing SmartQA is about visualising the act in one’s mind and taking steps to being robust and enabling rapid easy validation, outlined in this crisp article FIVE *more* thoughts on ‘Doing SmartQA’ in the expandMind section.

In this edition of SmartBites, listen to two great pieces of advice from Vivek and Shivaji on ‘reinvent yourself’ and ‘staying in sync’ in today’s rapid dev as “Smart Advice #2“. In the nanoLearning section Jawahar Sabapathy helps us understand containerisation & microservices and its role in today’s architecture.

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20 approaches to Smart Test Design

December 6, 2019

This article outlines twenty approaches to smart test design based on seven views of user, logic/analysis, construction, test, experience, operational and evolution.

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Black box thinking

November 14, 2019

Learning from failures .The inside story of how success really happens and how we cannot grow unless we learn from our mistakes.

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#40 – “Smart Advice #2”

Posted on November 22, 2019October 27, 2023 by SmartQA Community

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What does it take to do SmartQA? Thoughtful pause, multidimensional thinking, sensitivity and awareness and designing for robustness/testability. A short crisp article continuing from the prior article outlining five more thoughts on what it takes to do SmartQA. Doing SmartQA is about visualising the act in one’s mind and taking steps to being robust and enabling rapid easy validation, outlined in this crisp article FIVE *more* thoughts on ‘Doing SmartQA’ in the expandMind section.

In this edition of SmartBites, listen to two great pieces of advice from Vivek and Shivaji on ‘reinvent yourself’ and ‘staying in sync’ in today’s rapid dev as “Smart Advice #2“. In the nanoLearning section Jawahar Sabapathy helps us understand containerisation & microservices and its role in today’s architecture.

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FIVE MORE thoughts on ‘Doing SmartQA’

November 28, 2019

What does it take to do SmartQA? Thoughtful pause, multidimensional thinking, sensitivity and awareness and designing for robustness & testability. A short crisp article continuing from the prior article outlining FIVE MORE thoughts, on what it takes to do SmartQA.

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Black box thinking

November 14, 2019

Learning from failures .The inside story of how success really happens and how we cannot grow unless we learn from our mistakes.

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