Software Test Engineering @ Microsoft

Steve Rowe has an excellent blog post on Three Reasons To Consider Being a Test Developer (aka SDET). Nihit Kaul also follows up with some interesting comments here . One piece I'd like to add about the advantage of being a Tester (whatever the job title...

In our last post ( here ), we took a look at an Access Violation of a user mode application attempting to access memory in kernel mode address space. It's interesting to note that we can't just go reading and writing memory in the kernel- if we try to...

Pop quiz: what does this line of code do when executed? int foo = (*(( int *)0)); If you’re an astute reader, you can solve the answer just by reading the title of the blog post. But, more interestingly, let’s forget about that buzzword and analyze exactly...

Starting this week, I’ll be starting a series on the nuts and bolts of software crashes. Complex software has a seemingly infinite number of ways that can force a dreaded crash dialog, and I’m up for the task of enumerating why many of these things happen...