notes and rants

I was in a discussion with some other test architects at work today. We were talking about challenges in testing, and at one point in our discussion someone mentioned his frustration in finding bugs in the basic functionality of an application or interface. Read More...

I was listening to talk radio on the way home from work last night, and the topic of discussion was the recent crane accident a few miles from Microsoft in Bellevue. The focus of the discussion was on the capability of the crane operator, and one of the Read More...

I'll post this tomorrow, but currently I'm somewhere over the northern US or southern Canada returning from a week in the Boston area. I spent the last week talking to testers from Groove and Softricity. Technically, I was delivering training, but all Read More...

In the "if it's on the internet, it must be true?" category is this article and quote from it-director.com ( Malik Arjun originally brought the article to my attention) The ratio of testers to programmers is now 3:1 . This has given Microsoft another Read More...

I'm sure I've mentioned before that part of my job at Microsoft involves conducting training sessions; and three to four times a year the training occurs outside of Redmond. This week, I'm teaching in Boston (actually, North of Boston in Beverly, MA). Read More...