• On Demand ‘Emergency’ QA
• Get back on schedule – reverse slip
• Avert Vacation & ‘Key Person’ Delays
• Document – Test – Regress
  • Start Document Control,Design Templates
  • Identify missing & duplicate tests
  • Create dynamic Trace Matrix
  • User friendly Layout, Design
  • Deploy Bug Tracking
  • Initiate Agile

• Localization:Japanese, Spanish, ?? …
• QA & Code in parallel
• Free Developers from unit tests
• Technical Writing – Update Docs to Spec
• Automation:
  • When, Why, Why Not
  • Which Tool, HowQTP, Selenium, Sahi, LoadRunner …
  • System, End-to-End, UAT, Deployment …

• Identify Time Thieves, Rank Savings by Milestone, Schedule Automation
• Choose Tools by Capital, Schedule and Labor Cost
  • Open Source Automation
    • Seleniumr
    • Sahi
    • jMeter
    • Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl

• Commmercial Off the Shelf
  • QuickTest Pro
  • Silk Seque
  • LoadRunner
• Home Grown
  • C#, C++
  • Jython
  • Excel callingWindows DLLs

• QA Tool Kit
  • Library
  • Quality Center
  • Editors, Visual Aids
    • TextPad
    • Notepad++
    • Irfanview
    • SnagIt
  • Performance Center, Loadrunner, Vugen,
  • QTP, Loadrunner, Selenium, Sahi, jMeter
  • Perl, Python, PHP, BASH
• SoapUI
• XML Spy

• IPhone and Android
  • Smartphone Selection & Care
• Community
  • SSQ
  • SQA Forums
  • Agile
  • San Diego ASQ
  • San Diego UX SIG

• Job Search
  • Resume Refactor
  • Salary by Zip and Skillset:
    • Example: QA/92122

Translation: Making it Fit

• PROBLEM:You need to publish a technical specification or advertisement
1. from 2000 characters in German
2. to 1200 characters in English then
3. to 500 characters in Japanese, Chinese or Korean

• Then copy or “re-use” this information
1. in Powerpoint presentation to a large audience,
2. Web Page for many browsers and languages
3. and in Software Error messages that give context sensitive help.
• These are solved by the Art *and* Science of “Localization””L10n” and “Internationalization” “i18n”