What is Business Process Assurance?
What is Business Process Assurance?
The evolution of traditional QA or SQA to Business Process Assurance (BPA)
Back to Basics
To err is human. So it is logical to accept that every human activity in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is bound to have errors. There have been many names given to these errors - bugs, errors, issues [...]
The Art of Executive Status Reporting
Over the last more than 20 years of my experience in the global IT industry, one of the key challenges I have noticed is the lack of clear and concise status reporting. Executive Management of any organization is dependent on timely availability of accurate status reports to enable them to track the progress and budget [...]
Important for QA - Analytical Ability or Technical background?
I believe analytical ability is THE most important for a tester. As one enters into an organization, the analytical ability helps him/her to get the business domain knowledge.
BUT IS TECHNICAL BACKGROUND NECESSARY FOR A QA?
What is the New QA Role?
Over lunch the other day we got some food-for-thought from a colleague Sandesh Pawar on ” What are the skills required for the QA role”? His view was QA = skills of (BA + SA + Testing). The rest of the discussion went on over coffee and other breaks with Rakesh Singal and Masood Khatri [...]
QA Team is secondary to Development Team
Here are some observations and trends in the industry about Software Quality Assurance that have always troubled us as a company.
QA Teams are secondary to Development Teams - It is reflected in the amount of time allocated to their function, lower compensation of the team members and lower rates in case of consultants. In reality [...]