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December 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3:55 AM

The Ultimate Desktop Reference

I have a library of books and white papers on software testing, engineering processes and management, and software development that I have read and reference quite often. For new testers I generally recommend A Practitioner's Guide to Software Test Design
Posted by I.M.Testy | 4 Comments
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 9:36 AM

Prescriptive vs. Descriptive 'scripted' tests

Something that raises red flags in my brain is hard-coded strings or test data in either a manual test or an automated test. Yes, I know that sometimes there are times when a test must be very prescriptive and use specific data and follow specific procedures,
Posted by I.M.Testy | 2 Comments
Saturday, December 06, 2008 7:21 PM

How We Test Software At Microsoft

This past year has been quite busy for me. Too busy. Besides trying to keep up with my busy teaching schedule, driving some key initiatives and collaborating on others, planning new course development for SDETS, I presented at 11 conferences around the
Posted by I.M.Testy | 8 Comments
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:58 PM

Temporary test files

There are occasionally times during an automated test needs to create a temporary file during the execution of that test. The problem is that often this file is left behind on the system, or even worse stored in some obscure directory on a server. I say
Posted by I.M.Testy | 2 Comments
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