Software Test Engineering @ Microsoft

There's an interesting New York Times article about Beta Testing for the sake of `bleeding edge' status here. It mentions: Software testing used to be done by serious computer users. Now, testers are motivated less by service than by the status...

There's been a recent spike of activity from people posting Microsoft interview questions online. Here's some links: Chris Sells' Questions for Testers , complete with some interesting SDE/T questions Aaron Boodman's Interviewing at Microsoft...

Shrini K had an excellent question about the concept of a Test Case Yield. Test Cases can take an extraordinary amount of effort to run effectively. It's not uncommon for a lead, manager, (or Testers themselves) to seek high bug counts to demonstrate...