Satya Dodda on Software Quality: GlassFish, Java ES, Quality Community, Silicon Valley Software Quality Association(SSQA)

In the month of May, Samir Shah, spoke about “Enterprise 2.0 here, upgrade your test department” at Silicon Valley Software Quality Association. In this blog, I would like to provide a brief overview of the presentation. For complete information, please review the slides.

Samir Shah is a QA executive with over 16 years of direct test management experience,  ranging  from startups in Silicon Valley to the Global Fortune 50. He's the Founder and CEO of Zephyr, an Enterprise 2.0 startup based in Sunnyvale, CA. Most recently, he was Vice President of QA Practice at Patni Computers where, over a period of six years, he founded, built and managed a 300+ person Global QA Practice generating $75 million in testing revenue.

Samir started the talk with the following questions:

1. Does your management know what your QA department is doing?

2. Do you have right information at right time?

3. Do you communicate your QA department's hard work properly?

4. Can you adopt to changing project priorities quickly with out becoming bottleneck?

Personally, I engaged with these questions really well. As a GlassFish and Java ES QA leader, I face these questions everyday in my current environment.

After that, Samir covered the following:

1. Meaning of enterprise 2.0

2. Tools and Technologies

• He covered Blogs, Personas, wikis, enhance search, RSS aggregators, book marking, instant messaging, video chats, tagging and tag clouds, mashups, widgets, etc.,

3. How to apply these tools to your test department

4. Gave tips to audience about how to start moving towards upgrading your test department

Samir is a great speaker and connected with audience (especially with me) really well. His passion and experience about software quality are clearly visible in his talk. At the end, he gave a demo of the Test Management System that he has built at Zephyr.