Testing Testing 1,2,3

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...

Once in a while, I always like to research and take down some "useless statistics", which probably doesn't have any real meaning, but interesting to waste time at. And here is one of them. I have always been curious as to how many people does it take...

I have been wondering for as long as I can remember why MSFT doesn't have a centralized forum for software testing. But today, it seemed that testing god has answered that question as I happened to stumble upon this MSDN Software Testing Discussing Forum...

Before joining MS, my editor of choice has always been Emacs, but now the default IDE for most of my work here has always been Visual Studio. I have installed NTEmacs and tried to use it to do some dev work, but coding without intellisense (aka tab complete...

Let's think about this for a second: How come a developer can easily calculate implementation time, but why a tester always scratch his (or her) head when asked to provide time needed to stabilize the software? Why is test estimate so difficult and elusive...

One advantage of changing job as frequent as I did, is the privilege of getting hands-on experience of different team environment. I had the opportunity of being on 3 different test teams, each with very distinct characteristics and each team is in very...

I have always enjoyed watching motivational speakers giving out some speeches or tips on how to err... be motivated in life, or help others stay motivated, or maybe motivate others. But most of the time the content of those speeches would stay with me...

Technorati Tags: software development , testing , bugs , scrum Last week, I attended one of the engineering forum held annually at Microsoft (ala Engineering Excellence & Trust Worthy Computing Forum), which I must say is one of the great perks...

Keeping pets can bring many benefits -- reduce stress, companionship, attract the opposite sex, etc. However, it just occurred to me that my pet cats actually are even more useful than that. There are certain attributes about them that I find interesting...

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...

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

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...

I've been using the beta version of Live Hotmail for a long while now, and it seemed that the end of the tunnel is near. According to the official mail from Live Hotmail Team early today, it's nearly launch time. To be honest, I joined the Beta tester...

I considered this evening to be pretty special for me -- it's one of those rare days where I could have dinner peacefully all by myself. Not that I enjoyed eating dinner alone, but sometimes what a geek man wants is simply quiet time with a computer....

Some off topic from software testing here (as if I have a lot of 'on-topic', but well...). Yesterday, a few friends and I decided to go crazy and wander around town for a quick photo shooting session. The weather was cranky (cloudy and off-n-on drizzle...

I happened to check my mail last night from home and noticed a missed call notification for my work phone in my mail inbox (one great feature about phone+Outlook integration). It's from some guy with a caller ID with number 919-261-6681 on it. Hmm......

I knew this one is soon coming sooner or later -- FREE in home broadband services. I have to admit this is very clever and Google beat us to it first with their ingenious do-it-yourself kit which uses nothing but your toilet and the sewage line as the...

As our generation starts to march further into the web 2.0 territory and the online world starts growing, everyone is now trying to deliver their new apps into the users' hands as fast as possible. Many web 2.0 companies are now focus on getting their...

So it looked like the whole world now know about the Windows Vista soda thanks to Wired and Digg . I can add a bit more factoid about the drink. I've been drinking this stuff on and off for quite sometimes now and I think it's starting to grow on me....

This year is going to be a memorable one since it's the last year that Bill is going to be with us 'softie full time. In light of the upcoming retirement, I decided to read on his bio just to learn a bit more about him. What I found out was somewhat amazing...

The concept of data driven testing has been around for quite a long time, and I think it's worthwhile to review its application which can be extremely powerful to automated testing. At the same time, it's also beneficial to know that there are certain...

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...

As I sat and waited for my doctor appointment this morning, I came across one of the article in the March issue of Time magazine. I flipped through the pages, and stumbled across a familiar looking guy with the uncanny smile. Looking at the picture below...

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...

...but it was for the greater and better cause anyway, especially for all FPS fans out there. About a year ago today (back in August/September 2006), my office mate Derek and I signed up for a little gaming tournament to help beta test some sort of FPS...