In this post, we’ll briefly outline how our DevOps 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 the short […]
Qxf2’s DevOps roadmap
An introduction to R&D at Qxf2
As a techie, you cannot escape the buzz around IoT, elastic cloud computing, data analytics, machine learning, AI and the like. Most of the deep testing we would like to do in these areas lack easily accessible knowledge sources and definitely lack good tooling. We are sure that larger companies have faced many of these challenges and have arrived at […]
The need for change (at Qxf2)
This is the second post in a series of posts outlining the technical and organizational work we are undertaking at Qxf2. This post will help you understand why we are doing something different from a lot of other testing firms. In this post, we will look at three big challenges we think testers will face when tackling some of the […]
Where is Qxf2 headed?
This article is an introduction to the technical and organizational work we are undertaking at Qxf2. We have taken the effort to write what we are doing mainly for our own clarity and for the outside chance that someone reading this would want to collaborate or offer help. We hear a lot about emerging areas in technology – IoT, autonomous […]
The informed tester’s newsletter
Do you want to become more ‘technical’ as a tester but have no clue about how to get there? Sign up for our weekly newsletter. We are calling it the ‘Informed tester’s newsletter’ (naming is hard!). It will help you stay in touch with the happenings in the world of testing and technology. The newsletter will go out every Friday. […]
Videos senior Qxf2 employees watch
I have a pet but unproven theory. Bugs are born outside of code. Several conditions outside the control of engineering influence the quality of software being produced. And I want to find out what those conditions and factors are. I still cannot articulate my idea well, but the videos over here go a long way in helping me think and […]
Understanding software at startups
When working with software startups, you will observe a few counter-intuitive things. Good developers can produce bad software. It is usually ok to put out immature software that is not yet ready. Buggy software can successfully dominate a market. Many ‘good’ habits like adherence to process, discipline, good architecture and responsible communication don’t seem to correlate with success over the […]
Testing the Fitbit heart rate monitoring system: Part 2
In this post, we outline a cheap and creative way to perform repeatable and controlled tests on the Fitbit heart rate monitor. Our test has a reasonable degree of accuracy. We hope it helps the Fitbit developers rapidly test their prototypes. To be clear: thorough, accurate and precise testing is needed in the later stages of development. The test outlined […]
Testing the Fitbit heart rate monitoring system: Part 1
We outline a quick and dirty test for testing Fitbit’s heart rate monitor. This is the first in a series of two posts that will cover our work on developing a cheap and quick test with an acceptable level of accuracy for the Fitbit heart rate monitor. Why this post? The ‘why’ behind this post is long. You can safely […]
If you can move the earth …
I recently realized something about working in product companies that sell to healthcare providers. I am writing this in the hope that at least a few engineers contemplating working in Healthcare IT read this post and come out with a better perspective about one aspect of working in the Healthcare IT sector. Give me a place to stand on, and […]