We were performing some shared notebook testing recently and someone noticed that an outline in one of our notebooks had changed. She first thought that some garbage text had been inserted instead of a typical user name for the text of who last modified...

So the other day I had the chance to head out and work from home. I was able to do this because I had all my testing ready to go in HyperV. I had a Vista Machine with 64 bit version installed ready to go for some setup testing, and had another image ready...

One of our automation scripts was failing last week. The test it was performing is very easy to describe: it pasted text on a page and verified the text was pasted. Then it called Undo to undo the paste and verified the text was indeed gone. And it started...

I have a theory about the value of automation (and many other test tools) and the time it takes to develop, maintain and use them. I call this my "Robinson Crusoe Theory" of testing and it goes like this: Imagine you are cast away on a deserted...

Last week Mike and I were performing some merge testing. "Merge" is the word we use to describe the behavior of taking my changes and Mike's changes on a page in a notebook and merging them together. For instance, if there was a table on the...

I submitted some changes to an automation script a few days ago and failed my code review. Code reviews are the mechanism we use to ensure we all adhere to coding guidelines - Pascal Casing vs. camel Casing, for instance. A peer will look over my code...