Qxf2 often brands our type of testing as technical testing. We do not care about “manual testing” or “automated testing”. We struggle to explain what that means to other folks who are stuck in the “manual vs automation” mindset. Technical testing is one of those terms that is easier to experience than to explain. Given how often we need to […]
Technical testing at Qxf2: Q1 of 2022
Transitioning to testing loosely coupled microservices
Testing loosely coupled microservices, at least for me, has proven to be much more challenging than testing monoliths. I feel like a beginner again – especially when there are many teams and many independently deployable services. I often feel overwhelmed with how much there is to consider! In this post, I present a mental model that is helping me think […]
A QA interview exercise – read code in different languages
In this post, we are sharing an exercise we use to interview QA engineers. We have a slideshow that shows code in about 13 different languages. The candidate has to guess what each code snippet does. This exercise has proven to be useful in differentiating between QA who are fundamentally scared of code from the ones who are comfortable with […]
Register for OnlineTestConf: Nov 27-28, 2018
Hey testers, 2018 is about to end in a month and a half and you haven’t attended a single testing conference yet this year? Or perhaps you are still eager to attend more. Then, here is one opportunity for you to attend the OnlineTestConf brought to you by Practitest. OnlineTestConf is a completely online testing conference organized with an aim […]
QA interview tool: A real app with bugs seeded in it
In this post, we share a QA interview tool – a simple web application that has bugs seeded in it. Qxf2 created this tool about 6-months ago and shared it on a couple of different social media platforms. Since then, we have received enough unsolicited feedback and thank you messages that we felt it is worth publishing on our blog. […]
Experimenting with team structures at Qxf2
This post will give you an overview of how we think about team structure and job roles at Qxf2. We are fairly certain that current structure of testing teams is not going to help us solve a lot of problems that are coming our way. You can read about the challenges we think are coming our way. Haven’t you […]
An introduction to hiring and onboarding at Qxf2
This post will give you an overview of how we think about hiring, onboarding and the steps we have taken so far. This post is useful if you are looking to setup a team from scratch or are starting a services company. Note: This is a very long article, but you can skip sections that do not interest you and […]
An introduction to training at Qxf2
This post outlines our efforts in building a training program at Qxf2. The training program at Qxf2 We doubt that the current skills of testers will be sufficient in the near future (see The need for change (at Qxf2)). Which means we will need to train (or retrain) people to stay relevant. This post will give you an overview of […]
Qxf2’s Data analytics, Machine Learning and AI roadmap
In this post, we’ll briefly outline how our Data analytics, Machine learning and AI roadmap looks. We’ll also give you a feel for how work proceeded before we had a roadmap and how it has proceeded after we came up with one. Note: We ended up doing a lot more in this area since we have some mathematics expertise (for […]
Qxf2’s Hardware and Robotics roadmap
In this post, we’ll briefly outline how our hardware and robotics roadmap looks. We’ll also give you a feel for how work proceeded before we had a roadmap and how it has proceeded after we came up with one. Why use a roadmap in the first place? The return on investment on R&D is not obvious. Our R&D work, in […]