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OneNote Testing
My first thoughts on OneNote when I came to the team
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over 6 years ago
by
John Guin
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When I first came to the OneNote team, I got sent links to no less than 15 notebooks, had my monitor "upgraded" from a CRT to an LCD, was issued a Tablet PC, had the COM API dropped on me and had to make the transition from enthusiastic user to tester...
OneNote Testing
Troubleshooting as a core testing ability: a true story
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over 6 years ago
by
John Guin
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An ability all testers need is troubleshooting. When presented with a problem, testers need to be able to find the cause to the narrowest possible instance. Finding steps to reproduce a bug is critical - it does no one any good to say "Application foo...
OneNote Testing
Everyone should have to work in technical support first
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over 6 years ago
by
John Guin
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I was on a recruiting trip to Texas last week with some other Microsoft employees. We got to work out of the Microsoft Texas buildings in Las Colinas (in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area for those of you not familiar with Texas). Microsoft has a bunch of PSS...
OneNote Testing
Logs, Lns and Log10: OneNote gets it right
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over 6 years ago
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John Guin
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As I mentioned before, one of the areas of OneNote I took when I came to the team was what we call "Napkin Math." This the ability to type equations like 8-4= And getting a "4" when you press Enter or the spacebar. It also works for basic trigonometric...
OneNote Testing
Shared Source Object Model Update 1
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over 6 years ago
by
John Guin
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I wanted to share the status of our shared object model over on http://www.codeplex.com/onom So far, we have 7 people willing to contribute in different roles. This is a great start, and I look forward to more contributors as word gets out about this...
OneNote Testing
More lessons learned when taking notes in a class environment
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over 6 years ago
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John Guin
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I'm still using OneNote 2007 to take notes on an ordinary differential equations class I downloaded from MIT. As I discovered earlier this week, this is really a stress test of notetaking. Advanced math classes like this are not the "typical" class most...
OneNote Testing
Using (and testing) OneNote in a classroom
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over 6 years ago
by
John Guin
19
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I was wondering aloud the other day about how students use OneNote in a class environment. I've heard a little bit of feedback through our newsgroup and from a few other websites like www.tabletpc.com . Nothing compares to first hand use, though, so I...
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