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Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:29 AM

I.M. Testy is moving!

I started this blog about 3 1/2 years ago to share some ideas, observations, and lessons I’ve learned during my software testing career at Microsoft. I have also learned a lot about blogging, and also about communicating more effectively. It is great
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:53 AM

Localization Testing Part IV

The past series of posts have focused on one of localization testing which describes the largest category of localization class issues reported by testers performing localization testing, and what we categorize as usability/behavioral type issues because
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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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Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:31 PM

The primary goal of a tester should be to work themselves out of a job!

Software is knowledge. Software is the intangible product crafted by a team of people who have pooled their intellectual knowledge to help solve a complex problem and add value to those who use that software. So how does a tester contribute to the intellectual
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:34 AM

Prevention is the best medicine

The past 2 weeks have been a bit rough. While in Israel I began to feel a bit congested. By the time I hit Nürmberg, Germany for 12th International Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology I was injecting nose-juice (nasal decongestant)
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Saturday, September 12, 2009 9:54 AM

Best Practices – Philosophy vs. Practicality

I have spent the last week in Israel teaching our new SDET course in Herzillya and our Senior SDET course in Haifa. I also did a lot of listening and discussing various issues relating to software testing and the maturation of our discipline; not just
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:11 PM

微软的软件测试之道(Microsoft核心技术丛书)

I am really happy to announce that our book has been released in China and available on the Chinese Amazon site! This was really a monumental effort driven by my friend and colleague Kelly Zhang. We look forward to the feedback from the Chinese testing
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:18 AM

Test Automation ROI (Part II)

Last week I talked about the silliness of wasting time calculating the return on investment (ROI) of an automation effort on any non-trivial software project; especially if it has an extended shelf-life. As my friend Joe Strazzre commented, “If you need
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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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Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:21 PM

A different perspective on random name generation

My daughter made me laugh today when she offered a bit of her philosophy. She told me that her favorite candy is gummy bears “because gummy bears get stuck between your teeth, and then you can dig out a second helping with your tongue.” I never really
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:33 AM

Stupid Hammer!!!

I remember as a young lad working construction for my uncle one summer. The hours were long, it was hot, and I would much rather have been somewhere else. But, I was saving up for my first motorcycle, so I did whatever jobs I could find. Perhaps it was
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