I have been teaching formal testing techniques for several years at Microsoft and University of Washington Extension. Techniques are systematic procedures to help solve a complex problem. A technique does not find all types problems; techniques are generally...

For some time I have wanted to add surrogate pair character support to a tool I developed called GString, and this week I managed to find some time to do that work and more! As I developed the methods for surrogate pair support I rewrote (refactored in...

I have never been really good at math. Sure I understand basic formulas, but I rely on a calculator when I run out of fingers and toes. I am envious of people who can look at a hexadecimal or octal value and convert it to an integer value in their heads...

The traditional concept of boundary testing was established as a systematic procedure to more effectively and more efficiently identify a particular category of defects. Historically, boundary value analysis has focused on bounded physical (countable...