You might be wondering what exactly an "SDET" is. Microsoft has a few core "disciplines" who participate in software development: Program Managers (PMs), Software Design Engineers (SDEs, or Devs), and Software Design Engineers in Test (SDETs, or Testers). There is a fourth discipline, Software Test Engineers...

One thing I'd better post about is a tool I've written and posted on the Internet, Regex Builder. You can find it on a GotDotNet workspace . In my own work (testing my parts of Visual Studio) I frequently work with strings, and I've discovered that Regular Expressions are a very nice way to take care...