Software Test Engineering @ Microsoft

I'm going to take a break from talking about testing and put on my recruiting hat. I've done a lot of work with Microsoft College Recruiting but I haven't done any industry recruiting, so now I'm going to pirate this space to give it a try. My team...

Encarta would be really cool if came with a talking Robot toy to explain content! There are a lot of strange ideas that come out of testers during Betas. Some ideas are very high caliber. They make us sit up and say “Why didn’t we think...

My team is still bogged down in Spec work, but we're getting close to being done. Over the past few weeks it's gotten pretty old. After all, this stuff isn't really all that fun. A lot of reading, a lot of nit-picky comments, a lot of discussions (sometimes...