January 2005 - Posts

• Testing Web applications

  As a tester in Microsoft, I got experience in testing APIs, command line tools and Rich client based apps. However, testing web applications or commercial web sites is something I want to learn. Ex: What it takes to test a shopping web site? Some of the Read More... Posted Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:37 PM by Dinesh Bhat | 1 Comments Filed under: Testing

• Object Test Bench (OTB)

  Object Test Bench is one of the features my team has created. You can create, inspect and make method calls on Objects visually using Object Test Bench. You can do the same things with reflection APIs but OTB enables you to do it without writing any code. Read More... Posted Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:35 PM by Dinesh Bhat | 1 Comments Filed under: MS Products and Features

• What is testing?

  This is something I have seen in one of the testing related online trainings: Testing is the unregulated art of evaluating the invisible against the ambiguous so as to avoid the unthinkable . Why is it an unregulated art? I think it is an art because Read More... Posted Monday, January 03, 2005 11:05 AM by Dinesh Bhat | 0 Comments Filed under: Testing

• Bug philosophy

  I found this quote on a software engineering book when I was doing my masters. “Every bug found means there is yet another bug hiding in the product”. I found this very true. In fact, I can extend it to “If you find n bugs, it means there are n more bugs Read More... Posted Monday, January 03, 2005 10:49 AM by Dinesh Bhat | 2 Comments Filed under: Testing

• Perl

  Which is the best tool for scripting automation? People normally start with Windows command scripting as it is easy to learn. If your script needs to run on Win 9x too you are in trouble. You can’t write a common cmd script for all platforms. I did some Read More... Posted Monday, January 03, 2005 10:48 AM by Dinesh Bhat | 1 Comments Filed under: Testing

• Myths and realities of testing

  Myth Reality Automated test runs are for free No. Automated tests will tell you what has failed but not why. The test team has to validate all failures after an automated run. There may be three reasons for a test to fail Regression Change in spec Bug Read More... Posted Monday, January 03, 2005 10:47 AM by Dinesh Bhat | 0 Comments Filed under: Testing

• Happy New Year!

  First of all, wish you a happy new year 2005! Let me introduce myself! I am working as a tester in Microsoft's India Development Center in Hyderabad ever since it was started in 1998. I started with VJ# and now working for Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Read More... Posted Monday, January 03, 2005 10:45 AM by Dinesh Bhat | 1 Comments Filed under: General