QAI STC 2018 Vadeesh Budramane, Founder & CEO, AlgoShack Technologies Pvt Ltd

Topic: Quality since Inception powered by Intelligent QA Situation and complication: In this digital age, products require refresh in short order, for reasons such as SaaS enablement, UX refresh, supporting analytics, enabling community support, extending product to be a platform, improving interoperability, and so on. As a result, companies, specially software companies, are under tremendous cost-and-time pressure. Companies that took several years to bring out a product, now want to shorten the cycle to a couple of quarters, between ideation, market testing and product release. Faster time-to-market with no compromise on quality & reliability, at a lower cost, is the need. Key question: Is there a way to reduce time & efforts spent on activities meant to assure quality without compromising on quality, and still make the process of software development and delivery seamless? Key thought: Software testing powered by Intelligent QA (an amalgamation of automation, AI, machine learning and deep technology) will allows quality to be induced right from the design of the software through to its build-test-deploy cycle. It will make quality the responsibility of every individual in the team thus focusing on Quality since Inception. Quality Assurance (QA) no more remains a role dedicated to the tester alone. It has moved beyond a role to a culture of imbibing Quality since Inception. Intelligent QA powered by Automation, AI and Deep Technology, now empowers product owners, developers and testers alike, to look beyond testing as a one-time / scheduled activity. It allows quality to be induced right from the design of the software through to its build-test-deploy cycle. It optimizes and automates the testing process that seamlessly integrates into the build develop-deploy cycle. This makes testing and quality look beyond the tester. It not only allows every member of the software development team test the product / platform easily, but also encourages a culture of focusing on quality right from the inception of the project. For instance, traditional software testing was a scheduled activity, carried out by the tester in isolation of the development. Testing was manual, resource-intensive, with no standardization and error-prone. Today, automation and artificial intelligence has turned tables for software testing. With the advent of Intelligent QA, the testing process is automated with tools that allow standardization, accuracy and complete coverage of the testing process. What lies in the future: The future of Intelligent QA will not just be to replace the repetitive, monotonous tasks of a tester but will empower the entire software development team with powerful tools and techniques that will be suggestive through self-learning, easy to use and implement. It will make quality the responsibility of every individual in the team. Intelligent QA will improve developer & tester productivity, improve product quality, shorten release cycles and reduce cost of development. Software development will now more work in silos of build-test-deploy. Quality will be infused since inception, as a culture that is backed and powered by Intelligent QA.

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