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Ship It

Posted Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:15 PM by jledgard
Scoble is right . All the research, value proposition positioning, and market playbooks can't save you from looking like a copycat. Waiting that extra year or even months to perfect something for the web certainly doesn't win you any customer mindshare. Read More...
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What do you think about CTPs?

Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:28 AM by jledgard
Brian Harry wants to know. We've always had a concern about the quality of the CTPs we release, but are torn between increasing the quality, but reducing the frequency. What we found with the monthly frequency of CTPs as opposed to the classic "wait for Read More...
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Will Live QnA suffer the Same Fate as Yahoo Answers?

Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 10:51 AM by jledgard
You tell me. I have 10 invites to hand out to the first folks that send me thier e-mail address. I'll post your comments about the service to my blog if you send them back to me as well. Read More...
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Feedback Request on Visual Studio 2005 Look & Feel

Posted Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:44 PM by jledgard
Aaron is responsible for a lot about how Visual Studio looks, feels, and behaves as an application. He's looking for some feedback about Visual Studio 2005 and has some specific questions. Feel free to leave your comments/suggestions here: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronbrethorst/archive/2006/02/15/532814.aspx Read More...
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Communities Test Team Hiring

Posted Friday, December 09, 2005 9:20 AM by jledgard
Microsoft people forward me lots of Job descriptions. Some of them are more interesting than others. I'm sure there are still a few people reading my blog interested in software testing. If I was looking for an SDET job the following description is from Read More...
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Hire People that are Good for your Customer Community

Posted Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:32 PM by jledgard
We're trying to change the culture here. Its no secret. We want people who work on Developer Tools to have regular interactions with our customers. Part of a culture change involves a shift in the people. I guess this is sort of my plea to Microsoft employees Read More...
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My Thoughts on the MSDN Feedback Center

Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:10 PM by jledgard
Overall I know it’s a great thing and there are some issues that need to be improved over time for it to be truly successful. I may be a little close to the project since my co-workers are responsible for the Feedback Center , but I think I’m Read More...
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How can Model Testing help test low level functions?

Posted Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:58 PM by jledgard
It has taken me way to long to respond to this comment from Scott . re: For Testers: Nihit Kaul Talks Up Model Based Testing It appears that model based testing forces you to define the various actions your application can take (add, edit, delete, rename, Read More...
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For Testers: Nihit Kaul Talks Up Model Based Testing

Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:00 AM by jledgard
It was my belief as a test lead and is still my belief. To test a product with any amount of interesting complexity you need to find good ways to reduce a reliance on manual processes. If you test manually you need automation. If you are writing a test Read More...
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New MS Testing Tool for Verifying Accessibility Now Available

Posted Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:15 PM by jledgard
Sara publicly released MSAAVerify today. She has been working on it part time for two years and I know is excited to have “shipped“ it. This tool has recently been picked up by several teams at Microsoft for verifying the accessibility of Read More...
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NUNIT and Code Coverage Usage

Posted Monday, March 22, 2004 10:02 AM by jledgard
Two topics I’d been asked to cover were tackled today. Gunnar explains “How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot With Code Coverage ”. Some choice quotes that I have also found to be truisms: To efficiently use any of this a time needs to be Read More...
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Mandatory Reading for People Reporting Bugs (Even in Newsgroups!)

Posted Monday, March 15, 2004 9:52 AM by jledgard
Having spent the last two years in my previous role of Test Lead in a LOT of triage meetings I found this post to be both hilarious and educational for people opening bugs. If everyone would do the opposite of the recommendations listed there when opening Read More...
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Software Testing: The GUI Part 1

Posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:21 PM by jledgard
I've been asked to talk a bit about UI testing. Keep in mind that none of my testing posts are meant to be a complete comprehensive guide on the subject at hand. My goal is simply that everyone reading walks away with a useful idea. You want to test your Read More...
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Exciting Times

Posted Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:15 PM by jledgard
The KDE Quality Team was covered on Slashdot today. Maybe working in a test org makes me biased, but this is a great concept for the open source world, and one of the missing links for OSS IMO. Some of the tasks, like writing documentation, may fall out Read More...
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VS Settings and Early Testing (Mindless Linkage Ahead)

Posted Monday, February 16, 2004 9:41 AM by jledgard
If you like C# and you have opinions on default Visual Studio settings you should check out this post . Another testing article I’d like to write is about effective early testing. At Microsoft we use a BVT process that has been nicely explained Read More...
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