Five Testers From VC

Back from the Holidays!

[Barton]

Yes, we are alive.  We were all out of office for the holidays and now we are back and ready to start blogging. We apologize for being such poor bloggers, and plan to better this year (a new years resolution?).  

 

Today we met and were discussing what we should be talking about in our blog.  Some of the topics we considered were

  • managing large projects
  • finding bugs
  • talking about VC features
  • getting feedback on VC
  • testing methodologies
  • robotics  - teaching kids programming
  • what have I learned working at MS for the past 8 years (today is my 8 yr anniversary)
  • testing in an agile development world
  • test first development
  • bugs to avoid in the product
  • prioritizing and making tradeoffs when fixing bugs

Let us know if you are interested in any of these topics or any other topics that you would like to hear about. 

 

We are investigating the question of sending bugs to MS.  We found a process that exists but it looks more like a black hole than a mechanism to get feedback to us.   As soon as we find the right solution we will let you know.

Published Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:57 PM by FiveTestersFromVc

Comments

 

jeff@consultutah.com said:

I would like to know what is being done to improve the quality of the mixed code debugger to bring it back up to at least what it was in 6.0...

When I have to debug mixed code, I run the app debugging Managed until I can't anymore, then I stop and restart debugging Native, etc.

That's why I stopped putting bugs in my code... ;-)
January 9, 2004 11:29 AM
 

I Love that New Syntax Smell said:

January 23, 2004 2:12 PM
 

Chris Monachan said:

It would be good to see a blog on 'managing large projects'. I've yet to see an good books or blogs on the best way for organising a large projects (perhaps of 5000+ source files). All the microsoft documentation on using the tools seems to concentrate on small applications.

It must be a fairly common problem, when an application grows from something that builds in 5 minutes to something that takes 2 hours to build?
February 5, 2004 10:27 AM
 

Barton Place said:

Hi Jeff, Thanks for the question. I talked with one of our debugger experts (MKPark http://blogs.msdn.com/mkpark">http://blogs.msdn.com/mkpark) and he let me know that the debugger team has been working hard to improve the stability and performance of InterOp debugging. Specifically we have done work to improve stepping performance, fixed several callstack issues, and we will support RPC stepping in InterOp mode. For more info on the debugger you may want to track MKPark’s, Andy Pennell’s, or Steve Steiner’s blogs (http://blogs.msdn.com/mkpark">http://blogs.msdn.com/mkpark, http://blogs.msdn.com/andypennell, or http://blogs.msdn.com/SteveJS).
Thanks, Barton…
February 5, 2004 8:54 PM
 

Mahavir said:

Five Testers , I simply Love you Guys !
May 26, 2004 4:45 AM
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