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I published this info when I started my GotDotNet blog ; with the move, now is a good time to re-present the info: Bruce Williams I am a test developer for Indigo – current and future Web Services technology at Microsoft. e-mail : bwill@microsoft.com Read More...
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Eric Lippert has a great post describing some of his adventures with security issues in VBScript. I particularly liked this segment: “Of course, it could be worse. There was a bug in early versions of the CLR (which I believe was fixed before Read More...
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In a response to my recent post on fault injection , Mark asks if I know of any publicly-available fault-injection frameworks. Yes! In fact, much of the fault-injection work done at Microsoft is built on top of work done by Microsoft Research, Read More...
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We have occasional debates here at Microsoft on the value of ‘white-box’ testing. (For the sake of this discussion, ‘white-box’ testing means testing that takes advantage of internal product knowledge, while ‘black-box’ testing relies solely on Read More...
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I’d like to talk about one of the first lessons I learned as a tester at Microsoft: Anticipate failure investigations, and log everything. Let me tell you a fairly rambling tale of my early days at Microsoft: We’d just shipped Windows NT 4.0 (and IIS Read More...
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Again, while reading this same Scoble post , it got me thinking about my role at Microsoft. When I tell people what I do at Microsoft, I say "I do software testing. If you find a bug in a Microsoft product, it is my fault." Of course, that Read More...
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Prologue One of my teammates recently set up a Wiki site for my team, and I must admit that I have become quite addicted to it. One of the pages I’ve created has been a list of common test areas, a checklist of things most of our tests will Read More...
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After the Indigo team's last milestone (M4), most of our feature test teams did an analysis of the bugs in their feature area, and extracted some useful 'lessons learned' to help us improve our testing in future milestones. Here are some of Read More...
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I noticed at this link that folks are starting to hear (and speculate) about Indigo. That’s cool to see, because that’s my team! I know, I shouldn’t tease, because I’m not allowed to talk about it yet – but still, it is just cool to start Read More...
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John Tobler talks a bit about Abstract State Machine Language (ASML) on his blog. This is actually a really cool technology – one my test team has been looking at for a little while now, and one that I personally have been struggling to wrap Read More...
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Ah, the first post on my public blog. I’ve had an internal blog for a couple months now, and I’m ready to break out of my cocoon. <grin> Quick bio: I’ve been at Microsoft for about 7 years, pretty much always on the same team. Read More...
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