Category: Strategy

  • Conferences and Webinars in June 2026

    Conferences and Webinars in June 2026

    TASSQ June 2026 Meeting

    AI in Testing: How We’re Building a QA Platform We Can Trust — and Why an AI-First Approach Alone Is Not Enough

    Presenter: Anna Karnaukh

    Location: Online – Zoom

    When: Tuesday June 30, 2026

    Networking 6:00 – 6:30

    Presentation 6:30 p.m. (until 7:30 p.m.) EST

    Cost: $20.00 (CAD)
    Register at – coming shortly 

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    Test Automation Summit Toronto

    The future of testing is being shaped by AI, automation, and intelligent quality engineering—and Toronto is where the conversation happens next.

    Test Automation Summit—Toronto brings together the testing and QA community for a powerful day of learning, testing, and meaningful networking.

    Expect a full day featuring:

    • 10+ expert talks, keynotes, tutorials, and panel discussions
    • Real-world insights into AI-driven testing and automation
    • Practical strategies to improve quality, speed, and reliability
    • Opportunities to connect with QA leaders, engineers, and decision-makers

    Whether you’re a QA leader, automation engineer, test architect, or DevOps professional, this summit will give you the clarity and connections needed to stay ahead.

  • Focused decision-and-action engagement

    Focused decision-and-action engagement

    Stop release chaos: clearer priorities, faster decisions, and quality you can trust.

    Focused decision-and-action engagement with department managers and key stakeholders – 2 weeks – This engagement is designed to identify the most important measurable impediments affecting confidence, flow, responsiveness, adoption, and maintainability, align leadership around the issues that matter most, and produce a practical 90-day action plan that can be used immediately.

  • Fractional Quality Assurance and Process Improvement

    Fractional Quality Assurance and Process Improvement

    1.  Are your clients requesting auditable proof that your product works?
    2. Does your product work as expected in all cases?
    3. Do your backers need independent proof?
    4. Is your development proceeding without any issues?

    If your answers were Yes, No, Yes and No respectively then you may be looking at a requirement for Quality Assurance and Software Testing solutions.    As a preliminary, consider the following when looking for a solution:

    1. Kickstarting Quality Assurance with minimal impact on your existing processes.
    2. Ongoing regular consulting periodically to keep QA on track and make sure the requirements are being met.
    3. Process Improvement and team empowerment while maintaining the current product trajectory.
    4. Providing enhanced communications and delivery strategies to clients.
  • Designing Testing

    Designing Testing

    Frequently organizations grow concerned about their Quality Assurance Processes. They are not sure if they are using the best processes for their testing. Everything has been internally built with little input from outside the organization. Over time the isolation may lead to inefficient processes. There may not be an awareness of what has changed and how it might impact their work habits.

    Please take a look at Case Study 7: https://nvp.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Case-Study-7-Consulting.pdf to see how the process was redesigned.

  • Quantifying Intangibles – 3

    Quantifying Intangibles – 3

    Last week we gave a partial list of intangibles: Better Quality; Strategic decisions; Opportunity and Innovation; Flexibility and Information and Decisions. We recommended setting a base level cost so they had some value. It should not start out too high but as you gain information over the projects, it should be possible to refine the benefit and get a more accurate benefit figure.

  • Quantifying Intangibles – 2

    Quantifying Intangibles – 2

    Last week we talked about quantifying the intangibles related to a project without stating what they were. The inability to actually state what they are contributes to the inability to quantify them. So here is a partial list: Better Quality; Strategic decisions; Opportunity and Innovation; Flexibility and Information and Decisions.

  • Quantifying Intangibles

    Quantifying Intangibles

    Last week we talked about how missing Quantifying the Intangibles caused issues in people supporting QA efforts. When intangibles cannot be costed (but still take effort) and the benefits the provide may not be immediate they become a (not so hidden) cost on the project. At the very least we need to put a baseline cost on the intangibles.

  • Are your Product Issues Worrying You? – Part 2

    Are your Product Issues Worrying You? – Part 2

    Last week, we asked if your Product Issues were worrying you and suggested some reasons why this concern might arise. The question that might come up is: “Why Quality Assurance for addressing this concern?”. QA is more than just software testing, it is all about Process Improvement and reducing the chance of further errors. Whether you are a startup or someone with hundreds of applications, all the processes surrounding those applications can usually be improved. This is where QA comes in and can help you.