Operations :  Quality Assurance

When you decide to do some landscaping, you have an idea of how big you want it, what stones you want to use and the variety of plants, shrubs and trees you want to plant. Some of your ideas may change once you get to the store but you have a starting idea and this is what you measure your success by when you have completed the job. Did the completed...

Testing the Unexpected Ad hoc testing is unstructured, unplanned, unscripted and spontaneous; whereas low- and high-level testing is planned with expected outcomes based on the requirements. When you are executing ad hoc testing, you are finding out the answer to the open ended question “What would happen if”. The various combinations of...

Low-Level Testing Makes a More Effective Web Site When you are looking to buy a car, do you look at the car from 10 feet away and say “I’ll take it”? You are probably going to take it on a test drive first. You want to know that what you are buying works the way you expect it to. The same principle applies to your e-commerce website...

A Little QA is Better Than No QA You know that quality assurance testing your online business website is important or you could run the risk of losing customers and therefore sales as well. But, you don’t have the time to perform a full suite of tests. What do you do? You can execute high-level QA testing to ensure, that at the very least, that...

Test Planning = Better QA Testing Most people would not break ground to build a house without first drafting a blueprint. The blueprint serves to relay the house requirements the homeowner to the builder as well as guide the construction workers on what to do. When it comes to QA testing your online e-commerce website, you need a test plan, or blueprint...

We now live in a fast paced society where we expect products and services to be delivered rapidly (some say "yesterday"), cheaply, and with a high degree of quality. This is particularly true in the systems and software industry. If we lived in a perfect world, systems and software would be developed rapidly and inexpensively, they would effectively...

Imagine a river. Then visualize all that the river carries with it. Apart from the water and fish, there are other elements which form the river. Processes are very much like a river. They flow in a natural direction and carry information with them from one point to another. The process of Value Stream Mapping is a by product of the Lean Manufacturing...

A quality assurance manager, also commonly known as the quality manager or quality control manager, is responsible for the development and implementation of quality management systems and procedures. They work in a wide variety of sectors such as manufacturing, engineering, food production, transport, petrochemicals and the public service sector. General...

It's not uncommon to hear the similar phrases quality control and quality assurance used interchangeably. This tendency, though a seemingly benign blunder, is actually a revealing reflection of an unhealthy quality management system. What is quality control? First of all, quality control is the "check" or the "end-of-the-immediate-task...

When it comes to quality control (in FDA regulated environments) and the implementation of quality related findings, successful performance is often determined by two factors: Whether or not managers and employees really concern themselves with superior quality standards, AND Whether or not the company in question has access to the right technological...