Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

January 2008 - Posts

Monday, January 28, 2008 8:50 PM

Do testers need programming skills?

The debate over whether testers need to at least understand programming concepts is still raging within the discipline. To me this debate is puzzling because it seems to suggest that as a professional, I don't have to really understand or be completely
Posted by I.M.Testy | 11 Comments
Monday, January 21, 2008 8:27 PM

Thoughts on becoming a professional tester

" If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived
Posted by I.M.Testy | 2 Comments
Monday, January 14, 2008 4:49 AM

UTF What?

Years ago life was pretty simple with regard to data input. Most computer programs were limited to ASCII characters and a set of character glyphs mapped into the code points between 0x80 and 0xFF (high or extended ASCII) depending on the language. The
Posted by I.M.Testy | 1 Comments
Sunday, January 06, 2008 3:59 AM

Automation Foibles Unveiled: Coding Guidelines Part 1 - Basic Layout

It has been awhile since I have written about test automation, so I thought I would start the new year off with a post about test automation. More specifically, I wanted to start talking about coding guidelines. Just as many development teams have adopted
Posted by I.M.Testy | 3 Comments
 
Page view tracker