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February 2006 - Posts

Interlude: Random bits

Posted Monday, February 27, 2006 11:38 PM by alanpa
Ever have one of those periods of time where you work your butt off all day long and at the end of the day realize you barely made a dent in the backlog of work that has to be done "asap"? That was the last two days for me. My wife was generous enough Read More...
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QA vs. Testing - Part 3: What is the role of Quality Assurance?

Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:44 AM by alanpa
Obviously, I have a silly peeve about mixing QA and Test. They're not the same thing. I'm certainly not the first to bring this up . IEEE 12207 defines QA as “... a process for providing adequate assurance that the software products and processes in the Read More...
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Part 3 coming up...

Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 10:40 AM by alanpa
I forgot when I posted part 1 & 2 that I was booked solid (literally 9-5 every day) teaching last week. On top of that, I had papers to write, a research project to stay on top of, and a handful of articles I was committed to reading. That didn't Read More...
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QA vs. Testing - Part 2: What is the role of testing?

Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 3:15 PM by alanpa
Answering this question may be where the core of the ambiguity lies. If I were to ask ten random testers (or “QA” folks) what the role of testing was, chances are good I’d get ten different answers. Since I don’t have time for any interviews this afternoon, Read More...
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OK - here goes...my rant on QA vs. Testing - Part One: Who Cares?

Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 4:09 PM by alanpa
I have started and stopped writing this post at least a dozen times. The mis-use of the QA term is a big peeve of mine. Let me rewrite that last sentence with appropriate emphasis. The mis-use of the QA term is a big peeve of mine . In other words, who Read More...
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PSQT Conference, here I come...or maybe not

Posted Sunday, February 12, 2006 1:47 PM by alanpa
I heard last week that my presentation was accepted for PSQT ...kind of. I received a notice that my presentation was accepted, but there wasn't a speaker slot for me. I act like a speaker (I submit my paper and presentation like a speaker, and show up Read More...
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This is not an excuse

Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 2:06 PM by alanpa
I wanted to reflect a bit on why my posting has dropped off so much since I changed positions at Microsoft. I'm not convinced that my postings will become more regular while I'm in this position, but on the other hand, I don't see why they shouldn't. Read More...
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I feel guilty

Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 1:58 PM by alanpa
...not very guilty, but definitely guilty. I've never worried much about the gaps in my posts over the last 9 months, but I've realized recently that I actually have a few readers. I've run into three people over the last two months who have mentioned Read More...
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Two months off

Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 4:01 PM by alanpa
Two months away from blogging, and a two month old daughter at home. It doesn't take too much deduction to come up with the correlation. I took 7 weeks away from work - 3 vacation combined with the 4 weeks of paid parental leave MS offers to new dads. Read More...
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