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#9 – The changing face of development

SmartQA Digest

Welcome to a special edition of SmartQA Digest on the theme of “The changing face of development”. 

 
The way we develop software today has changed significantly. Vivek Mathur outlines his thoughts on this theme in this edition of SmartBites. The featured article “The changing face of development” outlines the key changes in terms of approach, technology, build-vs-integrate succinctly. Enjoy this edition of SmartBites!
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#8 – “Testing in the age of speed”

SmartQA Digest

Welcome to a special edition of SmartQA Digest on the theme of “Testing in the age of speed”. 

 
The pace of dev and release and therefore of test is very rapid. Agile/DevOps and Automation are the key enablers. Srinivasan Desikan in the SmartBites outlines his thoughts on this. The featured article takes a different look at how good QA habits can speed up an individual to do faster.

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#7 -“Creativity & Visual Thinking”

SmartQA Digest

Welcome to a special edition of SmartQA Digest on the theme “Creativity and Visual Thinking”.  

 
Want to be curious? 
Drop the linear thinking. Think visually.
 
Keen to innovate?
Then look outside your discipline!

SmartBites

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#6 – An insight into big data/analytics applications and testing

SmartQA Digest

Welcome to the next edition of SmartQA Digest that features an interesting discussion with Dr. Arun Krishnan on “An insight into big data/analytics applications, and testing” as SmartBites video. 
 
Smart QA is about having great clarity, that occurs when you are actively questioning with an agile mind, not passively absorbing and getting weighed down. Lessen your burden and your mind is like a nimble goat climbing the mountain of complexity.

SmartBites

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#5 – Expectations from enterprise customers

SmartQA Digest

Welcome to the next edition of SmartQA Digest that features an interesting discussion with Sriramadesikan on “Expectations from enterprise customers and what it means to QA” as SmartBites video. 
 
In this week’s article ‘50+ Software Testing Terms that are most often abused!” we group the common jargons in software testing and depict it as a mind map to sharpen the clarity.

Initial analysis of recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes seem to indicate a deadly confluence of complex systems, stretched engineering & cost optimisation that drove systems off the edge, bugs that cost lives. A creative poem-poster titled “A (software) bug’s life” on bugs.

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SmartBites

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#4 – On modern architecture & 50 tips

SmartQA Digest

In this edition of SmartQA Digest, we bring you an interesting discussion with Jawahar Sabapathy on the theme “Modern system architecture and what it means to quality” as SmartBites video
 
This week’s article ‘50 Tips to Smart QA” is an interesting collection of FIFTY tips that spans across many dimensions to enable one to become “Smart Tester”.

Initial analysis of recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes seem to indicate a deadly confluence of complex systems, stretched engineering & cost optimisation that drove systems off the edge, bugs that cost lives. A creative poem-poster titled “A (software) bug’s life” on bugs.

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50 Tips to Smart QA

by T Ashok SUMMARYHere is an interesting collection of FIFTY tips that spans across many dimensions to enable one to become “Smart Tester”. 1. “Don’t

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#3 – Sharpen your axe to do faster

SmartQA Digest

In this edition of SmartQA Digest, we bring you EIGHT interesting thoughts from SIX test practitioners as SmartBites video. This week’s article ‘7 Thinking Tools to Test Rapidly‘ is a ‘how-to-do’  scientific exploration using a rapid session-based approach.

Initial analysis of recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes seem to indicate a deadly confluence of complex systems, stretched engineering & cost optimisation that drove systems off the edge, bugs that cost lives. A creative poem-poster titled “A (software) bug’s life” on bugs.

beEnriched

SmartBites

#2 – Surviving QA disrupters via smart testing

SmartQA Digest

In this edition of SmartQA Digest Sudhir Patnaik outlines his thoughts on today’s disrupters of QA and how we can become stronger. The featured article “Surviving the QA disruption- Smart testing is the way” discusses what ‘smart testing’ is and how it is critical in this age.

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SmartBites

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