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  • QA Initiative

    QA Initiative

    Quality Assurance for software has traditionally been siloed either within a company or even within a project.  There are quality assurance people who are frequently seconded to a project with a mandate to get the project out the door on time and preferably under budget. Those people are interested in quality assurance but are frequently classified as software testing for that project and nothing more. Some organizations will build a centralized quality assurance department and task it with promulgating quality assurance and give them a quality assurance mandate. Frequently that degenerates into a test tool selection and repository group who identifies tools that can potentially service multiple projects and tries to rationalize the purchase process and do some do some due diligence on what is purchased.  However quality assurance that transcends the entire company or even outside the company is very rare. This is something we need to address because there’s currently not a lot of centralized groups that are propounding the value and benefit of quality assurance to multiple organizations.

    We will be holding a kickoff webinar.

    Date: October 20, 2026

    Time:  12:00 – 1:00 pm (Toronto time)

    Location:  Online (Zoom)

    Registration Link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6718069876?pwd=qkWI2it1m3mBa5qYIH2OPHJiaIhR1F.1&omn=86229445221

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  • Quality Assurance – Step 7

    Quality Assurance – Step 7

    You have done everything that you can think of internally and you have spoken to outside people and used their input to further improve. At this time, it may be necessary to put the initiative on the back burner and wait for issues to pop up. We generally would not suggest this since it is hard enough to get a Quality Initiative going once, let alone, restarting it a second time but if you cannot think of anything further to do, it may be worse to keep pushing on something rather than stop and wait for something obvious to appear.

    Do not anticipate that because the initiative has been approved once that it is immune from further questions until it is completed.

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  • Quality Assurance – Step 3

    Quality Assurance – Step 3

    In our last post, we talked about how you would encounter resistance from some groups. If you have successfully navigated the issues, then the next problem that may set in is a loss of direction. The initial items to be improved are usually obvious and have been issues for years. However, after that it will take more effort to find things to improve either because they not be obvious or they may have been considered in the past and discarded as unobtainable. It is necessary to go back and revisit old items since the situation may have changed.

    One of the key considerations of Quality Assurance is to see how activities interrelate and whether a change in one can have beneficial impacts on many others.

    Do not anticipate that because the initiative has been approved once that it is immune from further questions until it is completed.

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  • Quality Assurance

    Quality Assurance

    During the past year, we gathered up some articles and LinkedIn posts indicating a desire to improve Quality Assurance. Most people seemed to feel that this needed to be a country lead initiative or at least a consortium of several large companies along with educational institutions. While that might be a laudable aim, it is unlikely to occur.


    Most governments have other things to do and a lack of understanding about quality. Large companies have other priorities and Quality Assurance is just one of many items that need to be addressed.

    This initiative will need to be lead by individuals who have a vested interest in Quality Assurance and a willingness to involve other parties in IT (almost everyone) who would benefit.

    We will be launching this in October.

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  • Quality Assurance – Testing

    Quality Assurance – Testing

    We are continuing our series on quality assurance. We have deliberately left out the coding piece of this because that is the piece that is changing the most frequently and processes that we had in the past have been superseded considerably by the advent of AI and the ability to grab code from certain repositories.

    We’re still looking at the testing, however, from the point of view of process improvement, because not only is testing lagging somewhat behind in terms of. AI implementation but the insecurity around code developed by AI is leading to an increased emphasis on testing.

    So the processes revolving around testing are even more crucial than they were before. Ensuring that we are:

    1. testing what we should be
    2. not over testing
    3. having the confidence at the end to state that the release can go forward.

    This is definitely critical when you consider our two other posts which came out last month and two more this month about having confidence in your release delivery and ensuring that it can go ahead.

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  • End of Month -August 2026

    End of Month -August 2026

    Are we now immune to the surprise caused by failures in computer systems?

    At one time, there was always a reaction to computer failures (including data breaches).  People expressed shock, or at least indignation, especially if the outage was widespread and had bad effects.  Other people were happy if the problem impacted their competitors and not them. 

    Only yesterday the online and mobile apps for my bank were down for several hours.  The system recovered; no explanation was offered.

    Over time, most people had their own share of failures (which put an end to the snide remarks).  But it also seemed that it stopped being news.  Too commonplace and too frequent. 

    Are we missing opportunities to rectify this situation?  The answer is yes and later in the year, we will be running a series of posts on some methods of avoiding these errors

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  • Does your Software Testing Pay – Part 3

    Does your Software Testing Pay – Part 3

    “Does your Software Testing Pay” is the question we posted. We then posted a simple calculation for a ROI.
    After we posted the second blog we had a couple of comments to the effect that concentrating on defects was a very narrow focus in terms of cost recovery and benefits. This was certainly a valid criticism; we had concentrated on something that could be answered and calculated without too much effort.

    Some of the suggestions that came back were as follows:

    1. Contributing to a better product using the information gleaned from testing
    2. Enhanced knowledge of the product for both testers and developers.
    3. Future design improvements.
    4. A better quality product.

    No doubt more items could be added to the above list

    Now we just need to cost them

    Since some of these are subjective benefits, it is suggested that they be documented and then all stakeholders can assign them to a value bucket (independently). As a starting point we can use an averaged value for each benefit and then convert that into a dollar value to determine the benefit.

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  • The AI Testing Landscape: Where Testers Create Value in the AI Era

    The AI Testing Landscape: Where Testers Create Value in the AI Era

    Artificial Intelligence is everywhere in software testing right now.

    Testers are experimenting with tools, generating test cases, writing automation scripts, and even reviewing code with AI. On the surface, it feels like a massive leap forward.

    The session introduces a practical framework for understanding the different domains of AI testing and the evolving role of software testers

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    Biography

    Swati Seela is a Principal SQA Engineer, author, and speaker with 20+ years of experience in software testing, automation, and quality engineering. She has built scalable test frameworks, authored 100+ widely read articles, and trained testers globally. Her work focuses on practical, high-impact testing and real-world applications of AI in quality engineering.

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