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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:01 AM

LogiGear blogging classic software testing advice

LogiGear is in the middle of a 13 part series covering classic software testing advice from Cem Kaner's book, "Testing Computer Software". I recommend this book to all new testers on my teams at Microsoft. If you're considering a career in software testing
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Monday, April 07, 2008 9:23 PM

Are you prepared?

http://www.microsoftreality.com/raleigh/
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:17 PM

QA Team Values for Team Foundation Server

My QA manager colleague and I have been working on our QA metrics process for the Team Foundation Server test organization.  This has been a fascinating process, and I wanted to give out a little insight into how we're thinking about the problem.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:58 PM

Looking for a few good testers...

Microsoft in Raleigh is still going strong!  We're always on the lookout for great testers who want to work on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.  Our team currently has openings for Software Design Engineers in Test, Software Design Engineers,
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:08 PM

Learning about product and team metrics

Metrics are a double-edged sword. On one hand, you can't improve what you don't measure. On the other hand, if your metrics program is implemented poorly, you can end up with all sorts of problems ranging from fooling yourself into thinking everything's
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:47 PM

Eating more dogfood...

Our QA team has recently committed to converting all of our automated tests to VSTT -style tests. You might be shocked to learn they're not already all implemented with VSTT, but please remember that we were all building our pieces of Team System at the
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:40 PM

An Inside Look at the TFS Product Team's Quality Process

Brian Harry has been blogging over the past few days about the Team Foundation Server team's product quality process. So far, he's covered build quality , automated testing , and performance testing . This is a rare and highly detailed look at some internal
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Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:57 PM

You get what you measure - and bring your boots.

Elisabeth Hendrickson recently posted a roll-up of several interesting articles about software quality metrics. Well worth the read if you're managing a team and are looking for ways to track progress. I've been thinking a lot about metrics lately. I
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Thursday, December 07, 2006 11:33 AM

To automate or not to automate? That is the question!

The December issue of Software Test & Performance Magazine (which you can download for free) has a great article on determining which tests are suitable for automating and which aren't. The author, Bob Galen, presents several points to consider when
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 12:17 PM

Software Test and Performance Magazine

I don't like to get into the business of endorsing, so I won't. But what I will say about Software Test and Performance Magazine is that I enjoy reading it and find that it has some interesting and relevant articles on a regular basis. Oh, and it's free.
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 7:44 PM

What's an SDET?

Here's a post someone just showed me by Scott Louvau in June 2005 that may give you more insight into what the SDET role at Microsoft is all about. http://blogs.msdn.com/scottlo/archive/2005/06/29/434121.aspx Scott touches on a few key points about the
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Friday, May 12, 2006 5:19 PM

Confidence in quality

"Confidence in quality" is a concept I've been thinking about quite a bit lately and I thought it'd be an interesting topic to cover here. I'm curious what other people think about this idea and what you do to increase confidence in your quality assessments.
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Friday, May 12, 2006 5:10 PM

More SDET and Lead SDET openings in Raleigh!

Just a quick note to let everyone know I have several openings for SDETs and Lead SDETs in our office in Raleigh, NC. For details, check out http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/default.aspx and search for jobs in NC-Raleigh. Please submit resumes
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Friday, April 14, 2006 11:22 AM

What do you want from your test automation?

Part I - What's in a pass rate? The Team Foundation Server test team is busy these days preparing our test automation for handoff to our servicing team. This means, among other things, making darn sure our tests always run correctly and provide expected
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Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:00 AM

Currently reading "Lessons Learned in Software Testing"

I'm working my way through " Lessons Learned in Software Testing " by Cem Kaner, James Bach, and Bret Pettichord. It's a great collection of sometimes obvious & sometimes surprising tips on you guessed it - software testing. I'm enjoying it so much,
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