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January 2005 - Posts

Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:40 PM

Reasons to be a Test Developer

Steve Rowe has an excellent blog post on Three Reasons To Consider Being a Test Developer (aka SDET). Nihit Kaul also follows up with some interesting comments here . One piece I'd like to add about the advantage of being a Tester (whatever the job title
Posted by chappell | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 18, 2005 7:47 AM

Why does Software Crash #2 – The Access Violation (continued)

In our last post ( here ), we took a look at an Access Violation of a user mode application attempting to access memory in kernel mode address space. It's interesting to note that we can't just go reading and writing memory in the kernel- if we try to
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:58 PM

Why does Software Crash #1 – The Access Violation

Pop quiz: what does this line of code do when executed? int foo = (*(( int *)0)); If you’re an astute reader, you can solve the answer just by reading the title of the blog post. But, more interestingly, let’s forget about that buzzword and analyze exactly
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 6:14 PM

“Why does Software Crash” – The series!

Starting this week, I’ll be starting a series on the nuts and bolts of software crashes. Complex software has a seemingly infinite number of ways that can force a dreaded crash dialog, and I’m up for the task of enumerating why many of these things happen.
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