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From “No need for QA” to “Cannot Live without QA” in 100 daysWaisman Guy, Polycom inc, SQA Team leader

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Introduction to Polycom

Industry leader in conferencing and collaboration

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SVC is …

• Scalable Video Codec

• New generation of video compression

• Multiple Scalabilities in a single video stream

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Starting point

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Engineering team: 2 R&D teams (~20 developers) Single SQA Engineer (Defined role: Bug tracking, Administration)

Product: Application to replace current compression methods, Integrated within

large vendor media client

Complexity levels ~ 40,000 permutations of use cases…and counting

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First Vendor Drop

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SQA Get Into Action – Road to Quality

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Phase 1 – Foundation

Quality Foundation – Grey Box

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Quality Foundation

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Main test Application

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Dashboard

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Results Analysis

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Phase 2 – Taking Quality to the Next Level

Quality Foundation – Grey Box

Next level of quality - White Box

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Next Level of Quality

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• Improved main testing tool:

• Automation suite:

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Phase 3 – Back to Basics

Back to basic – Black box

Next level of quality - White Box

Quality Foundation – Grey Box

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Back to Basics - Black Box Testing

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Subjective Quality Measurement

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Quality Foundation – Grey Box

Back to basic – Black box

Next level of quality - White Box

End to End Quality

Phase 4 – End to End

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End to End Quality

SQA Delivery package :

KPIQ suite

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SQA achievements

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Lessons learned

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Q&A

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ENV Setup

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References

POLYCOMhttp://www.polycom.com/index.html?ss=false

SVC:http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/15138/InTech-A_tutorial_on_h_264_svc_scalable_video_coding_and_its_tradeoff_between_quality_coding_efficiency_and_performance.pdf

Testing tools:www.testcocoon.org

http://softwaretopic.informer.com/vega-h264-analyzer-download-free/

http://www.klocwork.com/?gclid=CKzDkoXw9bACFcFeTAodqzan8g

http://software.intel.com/sites/products/documentation/hpc/inspectorxe/en-us/lin/start/getting_started_inspector_xe_linux.pdf

HW & SW:http://pandaboard.org/

http://www.ubuntu.com/

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Thank YouWaisman Guy : Guy.waisman@polycom.co.il