For the past few years I have been teaching new testers at Microsoft. Before beginning the Microsoft ‘assimilation’ process I always ask each new group to define testing in one sentence and list the primary objectives of software testing. Invariably,...

Have you ever received a build into testing which was missing files, had the wrong file, or a file with the incorrect language version? These and other problems associated with the file properties of each new build usually result from a improperly designed...