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August 2007 - Posts

Why we automate

I never really understood why so many people external to Microsoft seem to be against the Microsoft strategy to increase the amount of automation we rely on to test our products. Test automation has become sine qua non at Microsoft for many valuable reasons.

Vista Rant #2 - Incredible disappearing files

If you like obscure bugs, then I think you'll love this little gem! USB flash drives are wonderful little gadgets, and I have several of them to store various files. Tonight I was using a flash drive to move some files around between machines when I noticed

The code coverage metric is inversely proportional to the critical information it provides.

One of the best aspects of my current role is the opportunity to interact with so many talented, highly skilled, and extremely intelligent testers at Microsoft and other companies around the world. Last week I was teaching a new group of SDETs at Microsoft,

Emoting software: more thoughts on simulating emotions...

I am fascinated with the advances computing, and have always approached computing from the perspective of what can this tool do for me to make my life easier. As a professional tester I have a lot more work to do then I can reasonably accomplish in the
 
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