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Joe Strazzere on HWTSAM

Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 2:52 PM by alanpa
Joe Strazzere read our book - his review is here . Thanks Joe for taking the time to read and comment. Read More...
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What's in HWTSAM

Posted Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:35 AM by alanpa
One of the suggestions I received after this post was to share the table of contents so people could get an idea of what's inside the book. The "thud" you just heard was my hand hitting my head since this is so obvious I should have done it without any Read More...
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I Love Bugs

Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:10 AM by alanpa
Like most testers, I love to see software bugs. I find a lot, of course, when I'm being paid to test, but sometimes they seem to follow me around. As you know, I've been watching the sales rank of hwtsam ever since it became available about a week ago. Read More...
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Dammit Jim, I'm a tester, not a marketer

Posted Sunday, December 21, 2008 4:31 PM by alanpa
Over the last 7 days hwtsam appeared on amazon.com and other online sites, briefly surged in sales, then tapered off into where I expected yet-another-book-on-software-testing to go. The thing about this book is that it's not just another book on software Read More...
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Announcing HWTSAM.com

Posted Saturday, December 20, 2008 8:45 AM by alanpa
I know, I know...just what the world needs - another web site. Alas, I created http://www.hwtsam.com anyway as a companion web site to How We Test Software At Microsoft . At this point, the content only contains HWTSAM related blog posts cross-posted Read More...
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We’re number 1

Posted Thursday, December 18, 2008 2:59 PM by alanpa
HWTSAM has spent most of the day as the #1 selling book on software testing on Amazon.com . The other authors and I were excited to see this, but being a realist (as most testers are), an overall sales rank in the vicinity of 10k means that we probably Read More...
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My New Addiction

Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:30 AM by alanpa
The Amazon sales rank has become my new obsession. I refresh the hwtsam book page at least a dozen times a day. I smile when the numbers go up, and groan when they go down – but when they go down, I keep watching to see if they go back up again. It’s Read More...
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The Pitch

Posted Monday, December 15, 2008 7:08 PM by alanpa
I attended a project review meeting today – one of those where a project team presents a problem, how they’re going to solve it, and ends with some asks for support (either in buy-off, resource commitment, or both). In this particular case, it was for Read More...
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Waiting is hard

Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 8:51 PM by alanpa
I would bet that all first time authors wait for the day when they their work is finally available – when they can actually see and hold the product they’ve been working on. My book was shipped to the printers a month ago, and I was told that it would Read More...
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TestApi - A library of Test APIs

Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:58 PM by alanpa
This is just a quick plug for a new CodePlex project – TestApi TestApi is an experimental library of test and utility APIs that enables developers and testers to test WPF applications, Windows Forms applications, .NET Framework applications, and Win32 Read More...
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Abusing Statistics and Metrics

Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:42 AM by alanpa
I've been interested in Metrics for almost my entire testing career - and I think I've been abusing them for just about my entire career too. Picking the right metrics to help a team make product decisions is tough, and people often get it wrong. Some Read More...
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My yearly trip to Boston

Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:26 AM by alanpa
I’m heading out Sunday for a quick trip to Boston (teaching a class at the Cambridge site). This is my 3rd trip to to the area, and I always seem to go about the same time of year (note – the first time I went I was actually in Beverly at the Groove facility). Read More...
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In Print

Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:14 PM by alanpa
When it rains it really does pour. If, for some strange reason you can't get enough of my writing, I have a flurry of print activity all happening at once. I have been published in the November/December issue of IEEE Transactions on Software . To be fair, Read More...
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An Interview with me

Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 7:05 AM by alanpa
Want to know more about me and my history in testing? Debasis Pradhan, author of the Software Testing Zone blog, just interviewed me here . I've followed Debasis for some time and was happy to be the first installment in his interview series. Read More...
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Schools and Rules

Posted Monday, December 01, 2008 6:07 AM by alanpa
I’ve tried to (mostly) stay out of the discussions on the schools of software testing, but after spending a long weekend thinking and reading about testing, I came to a conclusion that seemed appropriate for a blog post. A quick recap for those of you Read More...
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