Today, I like to discuss another career for senior SDET which is becoming professional tester. In many company, we call testers as QA (Quality Assurance ), QA exists long before Microsoft have the SDET role. You may wonder what is the differentiate between...

I believe the task of software testing should be creative and enjoyable. In term of creativity of software testing, we should never stop at the current testing methodology what we have today, we should always try to find a better way for testing, bringing...

Hello, Guys I like to share some practices to build Azure based services which are used for our services: · Have a ETL process to get diagnostic logs from Azure table storage to SQL Server or other process to post processing. ·...

Our team have a MsTest Extension which support parameterized test, data driven tests and dynamic exploratory tests. Let me know if you are interesting in this. In the future, I plan to opensouce it. /// <summary> /// Examples of data-driven and...

This Friday, four of us will give a presentation on how we build and test our SQL Azure Database Import/Export services. If you are Microsoft Employee, you can contact me and I can send you the link of our talk. I will talk about Continuous Integration...

This is one conversion about ​how we testing our scenario Depend on the project, we may have different way of testing the scenario. A couple of experiences we made Research industry standard, competitor to design your feature. This is usually...

Tonight, I attended SASQAG Monthly Meeting. Jason Arbon from utest.com give a talk about "Signals in Testing". Jason used to be SQL Server WinFS team, then he went to Bing, and join Google later. After he and James finished their famous book "How Google...

In recent days, I tried to understand how we should teach or how student learn. My experience of doing Ph.D study and my recent Dale Carnegie Training provide me some thought on this: The best way of teaching others or sharing experience to others...

One day, my manager asked me: "Qingsong, why you can get good review result when you are in SDET II level". At SDET II stage, I don't have deep testing knowledge and don't have big impact on the team. So I wonder what make me having a good review result...

We used to think about we as tester are some kind of gatekeeper for the product, and we are quality assurance (QA) people. In his blog http://www.developsense.com/blog/2010/05/testers-get-out-of-the-quality-assurance-business/ , Michael Botlon argue that...

was plan to write some suggestion for whether you should stay in your current role or switch to another role in different org or different company. Before I wrote my thought, I think I can give you some references on this topic. The first aritle is...

I have been testing area for almost seven years, and I grow from SDET to SDET II and from SDET II to Senior tester recently. During my career as a professional tester, I was wondering whether I should switch to dev, whether I can find another testing...

I beleive as a senior tester, we should fully understand the product we are testing aginst. Knowing the direction/future of the production is the first step of creating the best tests. We should ​be actively involved in project/product planing, and...

This is the end of my series of blogs of becoming senior testers. I hope you can learn some useful information from my blogs and help you decide your career. There are a couple of references related to our careers: How Google Tests Software...

Today, I like to discuss the single most important skill our testers should master in their career, which is coding. Why coding is important? Because you are SDET, Software Development Engineer in Test, you are software engineer. As a software engineer...

Today, I like to talk about managing a team. The secret of building a great feature is to build a great team first, then the team will build the feature. Then the questions comes how to build a great team. I like to stay in a team when I feel happy...

Today, I like to write a blog about hiring testers. The main reader is our hire Manager. This blog is not about how to interview people or decision on hiring a person or not which I think it is the What part. My main topic will be the Why part, i.e...

Today, I like to talk about another topic of being a senior tester which is making big impact. One of the important way to measure the succeed of a person is knowing how big the impact you are making to the team, to the project and to the customer. ...

Today, I like to write one of the most important career path for our tester, which is becoming a domain expert. We need to realize that many of us will not grow as a tools developer or a test architect. They will become either a professional QA, a domain...

Sometime, people will feel boring about doing the similar thing every day. They start to lose passion, and feel that their career grow becomes slow. How we can handle this situation? I have some advise to you. · Consider to leave your comfort...

Once you stay in one group for long time, you obtained very deep knowledge about the area and the testing methodology for the area you own. In this case, we tend to be comfortable on what we are doing now, and sometime want avoid change. However, as a...

Hello, Guys I start to a series of blogs about how to grow senior tester. I named the blogs as the journal of becoming senior tests. Here is the outline: The journal of becoming senior tester (1) - The four paths of becoming to senior tester...

Background What is SASQAG? Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group (SASQAG) http://www.sasqag.org/ is a Seattle area rovide educational and certification opportunities in a non-commercial atmosphere within an organization of software quality...

Today, I like to put one suggestion for choosing the data type of string column. My recommendation is always go with nvarchar type. You will not be regret if your database always using nvarchar type. For example, our SharePoint backend database always...

The “Exploratory Software Testing” book by James Whittaker is a really good book for tester in that it provide ways for testers to think about “What” you want to test. While I am reading the books, a lot of ideas come from...