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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:36 PM

Localization Testing Part III

Part 1 provided an overview of localization class issues, and Part II discussed issues with non-translated strings in a localized product and gave some helpful hints to manage that problem during the software development lifecycle. In Part III I will
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Friday, October 30, 2009 8:34 PM

Localization Testing – Part II

I should be of no surprise to anyone that localization testing generally focuses on changes in the user interface, although as mentioned in the previous post these are not the only changes necessary to adapt a product to a specific target market. But,
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:00 AM

Localization Testing: Part 1

When I first joined Microsoft 15 years ago I was on the Windows 95 International team. Our team was responsible for reducing the delta between the release of the English version and the Japanese version to 90 days, and I am very proud to say that we achieved
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:03 AM

Adding Variability in Test Case Design

I love autumn! Yes, I am definitely a boy of summer and very much prefer warmer weather; however, there is something special about autumn. This past weekend my daughter, and my 2 friends Dongyi and her husband Yuning and I participated in the Rum Run
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Sunday, October 11, 2009 4:19 AM

Randomizing static test data in automated tests

A significant percentage of static test data is stored in tabular comma delimited or tab-delimited formats and saved in Excel spreadsheets. Reading in comma or tab-delimited static test data into an automated test is pretty straight forward and there
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 7:40 AM

Measuring Test Automation ROI

I just finished reading Implementing Automated Software Testing by E.Dustin, T. Garrett, and B. Gauf and overall this is a good read providing some well thought out arguments for beginning an automation project, and provides strategic perspectives to
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 7:11 AM

Testing is Sampling

It seems it is about this time of year that I need to detach a bit from the world to reflect back on the past year and reevaluate my personal and professional goals moving forward. Perhaps I am just getting older or perhaps just a bit wiser (that is synonymous
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:58 PM

Better Bug Reports

When we report a bug our hope is that bug is fixed. But, of course we know that isn’t always the case which is why there are usually several alternative resolutions developers, project managers, or managers may choose for resolving a bug such as postponed,
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Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:26 AM

Programming Paradigms in Test Automation

Regardless of the personal opinions of a few people, the simple fact is that the demand for software testers who can design and develop effective test automation is increasing. Perhaps one reason for the distain by some folks in the industry is due to
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:59 PM

Assessing Tester Performance

Using context-free software product measures as personal performance indicators (KPI) is about as silly as pet rocks ! Periodically a discussion of assessing tester performance surfaces on various discussion groups. Some people offer advice such as counting
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Friday, April 17, 2009 10:02 PM

"Good enough" is not good enough!

This week I came across a discussion [regarding test design] in which a tester wrote, "… the main goal is having something that is 'good enough' ." Every time I hear a tester utter the phrase " good enough " my head wants to explode! Wrapping duct tape
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Friday, March 27, 2009 4:27 PM

The quality quandary

I often find discussions about quality to be hypothetical, and in fact unless you define your specific context the word itself is nebulous, vague, or simply meaningless philosophical psycho-babble. For a while now, I previously posted my opposition to
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Friday, March 20, 2009 9:24 AM

Exploratory testing inside the box

Much of the information about exploratory testing focuses on testing from an end-user perspective. Pundits of exploratory testing claim the approach is also useful from a white box test design approach, but I have yet to see any practical discussion or
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:29 PM

GUI test automation is not child's play

There are many approaches to test automation from unit testing to system level testing through the GUI. Of course, the most often discussed approach is the automation approach that drives the GUI to perform some action; or GUI automation. This also happens
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Friday, March 06, 2009 6:51 AM

Basic Blocks Aren't So Basic

In the book How We Test Software at Microsoft I discuss structural testing techniques. Structural testing techniques are systematic procedures designed to analyze and evaluate control flow through a program. These are classic white box test design techniques,
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