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Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:21 AM

Favorites powertoy for OneNote update, and developing a test matrix

Two things are happening. First, Shu responded to you and updated his Favorites addin. In his words, here is the update: I just implemented a new version (1.6.1) of the OneNote Favorites AddIn based on some of the valuable blog feedback. The new updates
Posted by JohnGuin | 12 Comments
Monday, February 18, 2008 7:05 AM

Automation tasks for the OneNote test team

Right now we have a little bit of spare "bandwidth" to complete some automation tasks which have been building up over the last few months. The lingo around here never lets us refer to spare time: we always call someone who has a few free hours to spare
Posted by JohnGuin | 3 Comments
Monday, January 28, 2008 7:41 AM

Using personas to help develop setup tests

Last week I wrote about two different types of testing. One was setup testing : the very time consuming process of ensuring an application installs correctly. The other was using personas to develop tests to ensure people can use our software in specific
Posted by JohnGuin | 2 Comments
Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:13 PM

Using OneNote's customers as a basis for designing tests

One of the more easy to explain testing techniques we use at Microsoft to ensure our software meets the needs of users is that of "persona testing." Actually, personas are used to define new features first, so let’s start there. Suppose we wanted to add
Posted by JohnGuin | 4 Comments
Monday, January 21, 2008 10:04 AM

Setup testing

Imagine a feature of Internet Explorer or some other browser which would automatically delete items from its cache after some set number of days or months if they haven't been used. For sake of argument, let's say the default value is 6 months. So you
Posted by JohnGuin | 2 Comments
Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:25 AM

A bug with the powertoy in development

We're polishing the tools I wrote about last time and getting ready to release them next week. The "bug bash" went well. We found some good corner cases to cause some different crashes, got new sets of eyes to provide feedback and generally had a good
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, December 03, 2007 9:11 AM

Powertoys in development

I dropped a few hints last week about what we (the test team) has been doing recently. And one other hint was my lack of entries for a week in mid-November - I was on vacation. Vacation typically means long travel times, and what better way is there to
Posted by JohnGuin | 17 Comments
Monday, November 26, 2007 8:00 AM

Two new items to track for OneNote enthusiasts

It's been very busy around here. The upside to November and December at Microsoft is that plenty of people start taking vacation time, so there are fewer meetings and distractions at work. That gives plenty of time to get caught up on all the low and
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, November 19, 2007 7:29 AM

Table trouble

I had to relearn the lesson of paying attention to details recently. I was writing some code to work with OneNote's table XML via extensibility, and could not get my code to work correctly. After a couple of days of working on this in my spare time, I
Posted by JohnGuin | 4 Comments
Monday, November 05, 2007 9:54 PM

Brouhaha with verifying my math script during automation week

I tried to get my automation script for payment verification as part of the napkin math area checked in. One of the testers on my team rejected it. Here's why. First, remember the equation I was using: pmt(0.05;36;30000)=1813.033713614259 Ultimately,
Posted by JohnGuin | 3 Comments
Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:42 AM

It's automation focus week in OneNote Test

We started another automation push yesterday and are turning out new scripts, fixing old, clearing automation system bugs off our plate and generally trying to get some breadth of coverage in place using our new white box testing system. The surprising
Posted by JohnGuin | 5 Comments
Monday, October 29, 2007 3:02 PM

My first thoughts on OneNote when I came to the team

When I first came to the OneNote team, I got sent links to no less than 15 notebooks, had my monitor "upgraded" from a CRT to an LCD, was issued a Tablet PC, had the COM API dropped on me and had to make the transition from enthusiastic user to tester
Posted by JohnGuin | 2 Comments
Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:53 AM

Troubleshooting as a core testing ability: a true story

An ability all testers need is troubleshooting. When presented with a problem, testers need to be able to find the cause to the narrowest possible instance. Finding steps to reproduce a bug is critical - it does no one any good to say "Application foo
Posted by JohnGuin | 1 Comments
Monday, October 22, 2007 7:32 AM

Everyone should have to work in technical support first

I was on a recruiting trip to Texas last week with some other Microsoft employees. We got to work out of the Microsoft Texas buildings in Las Colinas (in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area for those of you not familiar with Texas). Microsoft has a bunch of PSS
Posted by JohnGuin | 4 Comments
Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:31 AM

Logs, Lns and Log10: OneNote gets it right

As I mentioned before, one of the areas of OneNote I took when I came to the team was what we call "Napkin Math." This the ability to type equations like 8-4= And getting a "4" when you press Enter or the spacebar. It also works for basic trigonometric
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