1. By
Fahad Khan
mafkhan@gmail.com

2. Know your Stuff – The Road Map
 Know Your Self
 Your Add Ons
 QA
 SDLC
 Testing
 Bug Reporting
 Application
 Business

3. Know your Self!
 What do you have?
 Are you an expert?
 Do you have time?
 Do you need help?
 Can you help?
 Can you train?
 Should you get into it?

4. Your Add ons
 Analytics
 Humble ness
 Persuasion
 Marketing
 Do whatever it takes
 Knowledgeable
 Equipping yourself with information
 Making Decision

5. Your Add Ons Contd.
 Getting the work done!
 Acceptable reasoning
 NO reasoning
 Commitments
 Cutting the slack
 NO Perhaps! Avoid Assumptions
 FACTS and FIGURES
 Be confident

6. QA
 QA Definition
 Literary
 QA Principals
 Laws and guide lines
 QA Standards
 CMMI, ISO or other
 QA Techniques
 TFS/YouTrack

7. Testing
 Understanding the expectation
 Try to go for user expectations rather then the analyst or
coder
 Understanding the user psychology
 What are the goals for testing?
 Applying adequate testing techniques
 Which testing will work for which application?
 Enhancement?
 New module?

8. Testing Contd.
 Gather REAL DATA
 Store Sample Data
 Very important when it comes to regression
 Role playing
 Become a master user
 Automation
 All Good testing
 Required/Not Required
 All Bad testing
 Required/Not Required

9. Testing Contd.
 Common Sense
 What if there is no requirement?
 What if there are too many requirements
 Understanding the Coder and his approach
 Exception testing and Handling
 Thinking out side the BOX
 Last – deciding for the minimum

10. Reporting Bug
 Should I report a bug or NOT?
 How do I best explain?
 Will it be wasted eventually?
 Who is going to read it?
 I am giving enough information?
 Have I defended it well?
 Was I able to sell it to Coder?

11. Application
 Eager to learn
 Why it is in this world?
 Why we built it in the first place?
 What's its evolution history?
 What sort of cost benefit it is going to give the owner?
 What sort of benefit user is expecting?
 Are we making life easier?
 Understand the Technology and its limitations

12. Application Contd.
 Be aware of the flaws of the technology
 What are the work around?
 Are we used to it?
 With what we can live with?
 What can we let go?
 But then what are we testing?
 Decisions!!!!!!!

13. Business
 This is most important and I think we should have
discussed this on the very first slide!
 Why now?
 Getting to know what I am into?
 Getting to know the industry

14. Business Contd.
 Identify steak holders
 Look at risks
 Make sure to know who is who in organization
 Creating better relations which departments for..
 Accessing the information

15. Business Contd.
 Be in someone’s shoes
 Making a sense out of distorted information
 Filter – be careful
 Judging the person from which information is
obtained
 Make best of out everything!

16. QA
 Best of Luck