In the last post, I discussed how our team approaches designing user interfaces in an Agile manner. In this post, I will discuss how the design of Test and Lab Manager, aka codename Camano, has evolved as assumptions were tested and feedback was received. Starting out After doing extensive research...

For approximately the past year and a half, I have been working on building the next generation of testing tools. Our standalone UI, Microsoft Test and Lab Manager, was built to allow testers to plan their testing and overview their results. We have built the UI in an Agile manner and followed Agile...

I have been recently thinking about designing simple yet powerful UI. I recently sat down one weekend to take notes from Alan Cooper, one of the thought leaders in interface design, from his book About Face. Below are some of the points from the book that I found particularly interesting that I have...

In several of the organizations that we've visited we've found some that some of the more experienced ones tend to put much thought into planning their testing efforts. One of the organizations that we visited, followed an agile testing process with sprints of four weeks in duration as follows: ...

I have been recently focusing on a project to improve the lives of generalist testers for our next release ‘Rosario.’ In order to improve their lives, I’ve been trying to understand them better, their methods for testing software and what like to eat for lunch. Here’s what I’ve learned so far: Background...