Testing Testing 1,2,3

Photographers@Microsoft 2009

2009-10-01T07:16:53Z

Check out this book! This year fellow Microsofties who are photographer nuts from around the world spent five months assembling and publishing a world-class, fine art photo book. The time and talent that went into this project makes every copy of the book a gift to its owner. And guess what, one of my photos actually made it into the book. Here is the full book preview online (160 pages of preview!). I should mention that if you purchase the book, 100% of the profit from sales...(read more)

Session Based Testing

2009-03-11T21:21:43Z

As I was planning to do a team-wide presentation on Session Based Testing, I just thought I might as well use this opportunity to blog and share my own learning on Session Based Testing and at the same time prepare for the talk. Killing 1 bird with two stones has been one of my repertoires (wait a minute….). I do apologize in advance that I am not able to share out the actual slides since it contains some Microsoft Confidential data. But I’ll do my best to summarize the main point...(read more)

And the Oscar goes to… Live Search!

2009-02-24T01:58:00Z

That is a pretty bold blog title and absolutely had nothing to do with the Oscar itself. But I had very little time last night to watch Oscar, and was somewhat curious about the winners and losers. So I hit up Google and use this search term “Oscar”. Here is the front page search results. Seems pretty plain old Googley. So then I got curious and want to see how Live Search is doing. And here is what is shown on the front page. Immediately, all the major winner results are displayed, which is exactly...(read more)

Email Address test cases

2009-02-06T10:27:00Z

I've been on many teams in my whole testing career, and for some reason, I always end up getting assigned to validate the email address field. So after numerous times of hunting down my old email test cases from previous team, I am giving up. I thought I am just going to list out all of them here out on the internet. I know that I probably going to have to refer to this list again and again in the future. Might as well help benefit others like me. Here is the list of valid and invalid email...(read more)

Software development process

2008-11-25T08:51:44Z

1) Order t-shirts for the development team 2) Announce the release date 3) Write the code 4) Write the manual 5) Hire a PM 6) PM spec the software based on the code (to ensure the software meets the specifications) 7) Ship/Launch 8) Test with real users (free) 9) Bugs are potential enhancements 10) Announce the upgrade Is your team practicing this?...(read more)

Exploring “Exploratory Testing”

2008-10-02T08:12:53Z

My current team has been integrating this testing technique for a while now along with the traditional testing methods of manual testing as well as automation. Most of the testing community that I have known seem to brush this testing technique off simply as “monkey testing” which doesn’t really provide any significant yield on bugs nor achieve high quality bugs. However, I have been observing how powerful this testing method can be from my own perspective as well as by seeing the type...(read more)

Help! I found a bug in my code

2008-07-28T21:19:00Z

Okay, after a long sabbatical from writing blogs due to various reasons (over-worked, personal reasons, or just plain lazy), I am about to begin start blogging again. My MSDN blog ranking has taken such an embarrassing tumble that I think I need to start hustling up again. So, to welcome myself back to blogosphere, what better way than to show off a bug in my code? I just found it this morning, in plain sight. Okay, I know this is pretty lame, and probably not the first picture of a “bug...(read more)

Code of the day: while(!asleep()) { sheep++; }

2008-03-05T23:00:00Z

Stumbled upon this great one liner off Bash.org (via Reddit ) just moments ago. Made me LOL....(read more)

Y HALO THAR WURLD

2008-02-11T10:51:51Z

Today was an eye opener for me. When I browsed through my Flickr account, I happened to notice the greetings-in-different-language on my Flickr home page. You know the usual phrases "Kumusta ch4n!" (Tagalog), or "Hola ch4n!" (Spanish), or "Bonjour ch4n!" (French), etc. etc. However, I noticed something different today on that greeting. "OH HAI ch4n!". I just subconciously thought at first that's how Chinese greet one another, but then on second thought, that's actually not Chinese. That got me to...(read more)

2¹/2²/2³

2008-02-04T12:52:00Z

Today is meant to be the power of two's day. 2¹ => 2 2² => 4 2³ => 8 Putting together make 2/4/8 => 2/4/08. Of course, back home in Asia and possibly in other places around the globe today is actually 2²/2¹/2³ which isn't as interesting. k. 'nuff nerdinous for the day....(read more)