Five Testers From VC : Introductions

Hello

FiveTestersFromVc — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:56:00 GMT

Hi, My name is Barton and I’m the Test manager for Visual C++. The VC Test Organization includes teams focused on the User Interface, Programming Model (C++ Front End and Libraries), and the Compiler Back End (code generators for x86, ia64, and amd64 architectures). I’ve worked at MS for the past eight years and have always worked on the VC Test Team. I started testing the SQL Debugger and moved up to lead the User Interface Test Team and then over to lead the Compiler Test Teams and am now responsible for all VC Test Teams.

Thanks, Barton…

Don't forget me...

FiveTestersFromVc — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 04:32:00 GMT

[Rui] I am Rui. I am on the C++ project team responsible for the project management and build. If you have any questions, suggestions or grievances, bring them on. Let's see how we can make your project building experience more enjoyable.

[witty_salutation] hi [/witty_salutation]

FiveTestersFromVc — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:50:00 GMT

[Rob] I'm Rob. Being one of two team leads for the VC IDE let's me get my fingers into the VC Wizards, .NET designers for VC, VC debugging experience, and the VC Resource Editors (and generally everything else as well). I've been testing at Microsoft since 1999. Before working in IT, I was doing research in molecular biology (and offended many millions of Tetrahymena thermophilia, I'm sure).

Welcome to our weblog!

-rob

Universal Greetings: Ba weep, granna weep, ninni bon

FiveTestersFromVc — Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:35:00 GMT

[Michael] Hello, I'm Michael T. I'm a Tester for the Visual C++ portions of the Browsing and Navigation experience. This translates into the information displayed in classview, the navigation bar, parts of object browser, goto defintion, and find symbol for people writing C++ code in our editor. I've been in this position for a little over a year now. Prior to joining the Visual C++ team, I worked in MSN on a project to provide consumer web services, and before that I worked on a project to provide bug tracking and source control. I put in a brief stint on Visual SourceSafe 6.0 when I first joined the company. I've been with Microsoft for over five years.

I'll be talking about issues others have brought to my attention, and interesting issues that I run into. If you don't get the title, please refer to Transformers the movie.

Nice to meet you guys!

And So It Begins...

FiveTestersFromVc — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 08:55:00 GMT

Hello out there. Welcome to our new weblog. Notice I said “our”. We are five folks in the Microsoft Visual C++ testing organization and this blog is an experiment in group weblogging.

Our group started as a book study group. We would get together for an hour a week to discuss a common book that we were reading. We recently finished going through How to Break Software and were looking for our next book when we got the idea to try something different and this weblog is the result.

So, who are we?

Barton - Our esteemed QA manager
Michael - A tester on the IDE team.
Rob - A test lead on the IDE team.
Ron - A test lead on the Compiler Back-End/Tools team.
Rui - A tester on the Project System team.

How will we keep things straight since there are five of us?

Our initial idea is to preface each of our posts with our name like so:

[Ron] I'm Ron and I'm writing this initial post. I'm a test lead for the x86 Back-End/Tools team. My team is responsible for testing the x86 version of the VC++ Compiler Back-end (a.k.a. c2.dll) and other tools like the Linker, Editbin, and Dumpbin. I've been in this position for about a year now. Prior to joining the back-end team I worked for about 6 years on the IDE side of VC++ QA and prior to that I spent a couple of years in Developer Support.

Other members of our group will be posting a little bit about themselves in future posts.

So, what will we do on our weblog? We plan to talk about issues that get raised in our work testing Visual C++. We don't have anything more specific in mind than that. Feel free also to ask us questions in the comments for our posts (start with this one if you like). We'll do our best to answer them.

Let's see what happens...