Our Story
After spending more than a decade in the testing industry, we feel software testing can be improved.
By Technological excellence – Testing software from the inside out
By Testing acumen – Creative and practical testing thought processes
By Business value – Tangible results to the bottom line
We learn, research and teach these values and look forward to collaborate with you on them.
Latest from the Blog Book
Automation Guild 2018 Round Table Q&A
The Automation Guild 2018 conference this year was a nice event, people from around the world coming together to learn and improve their automation efforts. I had the opportunity to be part of the [...]
Legacy Products Automation –Technology Challenges
Legacy products usually have some common themes around them. Typically older technology stacks along with ‘not so efficient’ processes as well. Among the many legacy teams I’ve known, I see this pattern clearly and [...]
Communication and Engineers
While communication is a very broad term, can mean anything from the phone line, email radio waves or notice board. In this talk / post I mean the acting of conversing with another human [...]
Pillars of Automation Framework Design
As soon as you mention an automation framework, one would find people start talking about Selenium, TestNG so on and so forth. I classify the automation project’s architecture designed by the automation team as a [...]
The ‘not’ so small code changes
I recently made the good old ‘one liner change’ in our automation framework having a 22-hour batch run with one permutation only. We discovered a week before regression my ‘small change’ had caused a [...]
Understanding HTTP messages
In our quest to understand API testing, the first step would be to understand the general protocol used by client and server side of an application to communicate, which in API automation we would [...]
Latest Videos
QnA 03 - Feature Files and User stories - Purpose and usage
QnA 02 - Jira Vs TFS
QnA 01 - Testing Micro Services
AG2018 - Q11 Combining testers and automation engineers
AG2018 - Q10 Automating client server applications
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QnA 03 - Feature Files and User stories - Purpose and usage
- Background and history on requirements - BDD filling the gap to facilitate user stories - Implementation -Feature file and user story's individual importance and linkage -
QnA 02 - Jira Vs TFS
Jira Vs TFS -
QnA 01 - Testing Micro Services
- Going from monolithic to a micro services architecture - How to test them - Where would regression tests fit in the SDLC -
AG2018 - Q11 Combining testers and automation engineers
Automation Guild 2018 conference expert round table Q&A (AutomationGuild.com) Day 01 Q&A was with me (Ali Khalid), Angie Jones and Oren Rubin. Due to lack of time some questions remained unanswered which I am responding to here. Q11 - Combining testers and automation engineers -
AG2018 - Q10 Automating client server applications
Automation Guild 2018 conference expert round table Q&A (AutomationGuild.com) Day 01 Q&A was with me (Ali Khalid), Angie Jones and Oren Rubin. Due to lack of time some questions remained unanswered which I am responding to here. Q10 - Automating client server applications
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Building context to requirements
Generally how does your team go about doing testing or automation?
Most people (in my experience) jump right into writing test cases or automate written tests… anything wrong there?
The source of tests is usually a bunch of written statements without any context […]
Why Re-Orgs happen
Why do many enterprises go through Re-Orgs?
Here are a few reasons I’ve figured out so far:
- To increase efficiencies
- To reduce cost
- Technological innovation
- New management comes in with a new mandate
The root cause of most of these is large organizations having […]
Give permission to challenge
Leadership lesson – Give permission to challenge
What does this mean:
- People sitting at the meeting table should feel empowered to disagree with any point of view, especially if it is of the leaders in the room
Why is it important:
- It is […]
Developing software an art
While redefining the QA function at work, I keep coming back to this question:
What is Software Quality?
If we deliver exactly what the requirements / user story says, is that quality?
We’d say that’s validation, so we must also do verification which is […]
SAFe DevOps Health Radar
Going through the SAFe DevOps course I realized there were a few good points.Going through the SAFe DevOps course I realized there were a few good points.
Again I don’t believe in following any Agile framework to the book and take them […]
Dark Launches / Canary Releases
The new UAT: Dark Launches and Canary releases
Here’s what they mean and the difference:
Before that, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) is where once the software is shipped from IT, business / end users have a look and run their own tests to […]
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