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June 2005 - Posts

Myth Busting Testing #2

Posted Saturday, June 25, 2005 3:07 PM by adamu
Myth #2: Testing does not, by itself, improve software quality. I love this one! I must have heard it like a gazillion times. And taken at its most literal, it is entirely correct. Huh? Yep, it's entirely literally correct. So why am I calling it a myth? Read More...
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Myth Busting Testing and Test Automation

Posted Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:27 AM by adamu
I've been reading a lot lately, and wow, there are so many opinions on the advantages and disadvantages of writing test automation. I thought I’d share my observations as to the common misperceptions that anyone in the software development business (engineer Read More...
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Engineering Excellence and TrustWorthy Computing

Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:28 PM by adamu
For the last several years, Microsoft has had days devoted to Engineering Excellence (EE), and to TrustWorthy Computing (TWC). Much of EE days in the last couple years have been about pushing quality upstream, which I interpret as getting more testing Read More...
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Father's Day Camping - Acrylic Style

Posted Monday, June 20, 2005 9:24 PM by adamu
I was camping this weekend in Central Oregon. Each year my wife's father's siblings (all 8 of them) and many of their children and grandchildren get together (50 to 60 people) and go camping just outside Sweethome, Oregon, which is about 30 miles east Read More...
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Acrylic Greetings from Beijing

Posted Friday, June 17, 2005 5:26 AM by adamu
From the 8th to the 14th, I travelled to Beijing to meet with 5 vendors who've been working on one of my projects for the last year. Yanchun (Tracy) Guo, who is a test lead for Microsoft in Beijing, helped me out by taking me out to lunch, and in general Read More...
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Test Automation, plus what is it like to be in Test at Microsoft?

Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:39 PM by adamu
It's not sexy, but it sure is fun. Santosh recently had a great post on what it's like being in test at microsoft. For those who read my posts from last year on campus and industry recruiting at microsoft, I would encourage you to also read this to get Read More...
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Does quality really matter?

Posted Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:37 PM by adamu
We talk alot about trade-offs in getting a product out the door. We draw a triangle, the triangle of pain as I call it. One side of the triangle represents quality, another side scope of features, and the third side is time, time to market. The idea is Read More...
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