Design Strategies for Cloud Hosted Services The title phrase was made popular by Adam Savage of MythBusters fame (pictured to the right… the bunny is made of C4 ). However it is also motto to live by when designing and deploying services to...

Download PDF Download PPT Co-presented with Ken Johnston Leaping into “The Cloud”: Rewards, Risks, and Mitigations Wednesday, November 09, 2011 2:30 PM The cloud has rapidly gone from “that thing I should know something about” to the “centerpiece of our...

This diagram is from "How the Cloud Changes Software Production", by Seth Eliot, Better Software Magazine, March/April, 2011 - http://bit.ly/seth_cloud_better_software Figure 1 Cloud Resources by category form a stack This table is a variation...

Cool….I am seeing more hits on Bing and other search engines (I comparison shop my queries) for “Testing in Production”.  Here’s one: Why testing in production is a common and costly technical malpractice Yipes. Not the message I’ve been trying to...

Testing in Production (TiP) really happens, and yes that it s a good thing! Here are some examples from Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. The Methodologies This is not a complete list of TiP methodologies, but explains the ones used in the...

Ken Johnston references BUFT in his latest blog on Bing Jobs : Testing in the Bing Cloud Check it out.

(not sure who gets original credit…but it’s here among other places) I am a big believer in the virtues of Testing in Production (TiP) But others are less enthused by TiP

  How Cloud Computing Changes the Way We Produce Software by Seth Eliot Creating services in the cloud enables new capabilities and features to improve your product and empower your team. But the cloud also introduces challenges as to how to build...

Added March 25, 2011 You can view the full version of the slides I presented at http://bit.ly/seth_STP_slides Original Blog Post follows: I will be speaking at STP Con - Software Test Professionals Conference 2011 . Testing in Production: Your Key to...

Just had a small article published by the good folks at STP You can read it here: http://bit.ly/seth_stp_scenario

Pop quiz.... here is an article I recent stumbled upon, which side (pro or con) do you think the author takes? Pros and Cons of Requirements-Based Software Testing For something that is essential, fairly fundamental and seemingly straightforward, requirements...

Reading the title you might think I am pulling a Don Dodge… the Microsoft evangelist you got canned, moved to Google, and almost immediately penned a blog post on the wonders of Apple versus stodgy old Microsoft .  No that’s not it… I thought to...

  It’s About Software Quality Not sure what you were expecting here at Your Software Has Bugs , but ignore that picture on the left, and learn how Exposure Control let’s you roll out dangerous software while minimizing risk to your users by giving...

The Rise and Fall of Waterfall is a cute video (although with a somewhat annoying soundtrack.. watch with the sound off).  My favorite part of it is the screenshot (seen above) showing the waterfall stages and their respective impacts.  The...

I tell non-technical friends and family that I recently switched roles at Microsoft to th e Bing team. Many have heard of Microsoft's new search engine http://bing.com , although most don't know all the cool features Bing offers . But for my Technical...

No this is not a piece on job security for Software QA Professionals. I was recently at a Test Team sprint-end demo. For at least two of the projects shown, the metric of interest to Dev managements was, “how many bugs did you find?” and when the answer...

Prologue I read somewhere that one maxim of a successful blog was that you should never apologize for not having posted in a while… ….that’s all I have to say on that. Premise “ $#*! My Dad Says ” is a popular internet meme where comedian Justin Halpern...

My talk at the Better Software Conference was a lot of fun. It was well received. If you want to check out the slides, take a look here . Evidence shows than more than half of the ideas that we think will improve the user experience actually fail to do...

While I previously made some comparisons between Amazon.com and Microsoft's different approaches to software testing in Building Services: The Death of Big Up-Front Testing (BUFT)? , I think now would be a fun and interesting time to do a deeper dive...

Since I have started blogging, a pattern has emerged. I make a post on some topic, it sits out there for a few days, I get some commentary on it, I cogitate on it, and then I feel I have something more to say to clarify my initial point. Well, my last...

SDET stands for Software Development Engineer in Test (or Software Design Engineer in Test). I believe this title was originated at Microsoft (but have not researched this). It is also used at Amazon.com and Google. The SDET role can be compared with...

Testing with Real Users - User Interaction and Beyond, with Online Experimentation Evidence shows than more than half of the ideas that we think will improve the user experience actually fail to do so—and some actually make it worse. Instead of guessing...

I am obsessed with answering Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s question, “What the Hell is Cloud Computing?” I introduced you to the genteel CEO and his polite query in What The Heck Is Cloud Computing? , I then distilled and simplified...

If I need to defeat a group of men terrorizing a circus family , then Chuck Norris is the man to call. The tough guy, martial artist, action hero has become an internet meme – Chuck Norris Facts attest to the true bad-a**-ness of the one called Chuck...

Conditional Formatting in is a neat feature that lets you create rules for your appointments, and formats them based on those rules. For example I have a rule: If subject contains any of the words "interview; screen; informational; recruiting; recruit...