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Monday, August 31, 2009 7:53 AM

A quick test and tip for OneNote audio search

Looking through the newsgroup this weekend showed this comment : basically, this person was having some difficulty getting audio search working well. I had some problems with this in the past and wanted to share a tip to possibly get this working better
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Monday, March 10, 2008 7:18 AM

Calendar templates for OneNote

I found another blog here which showcases templates for different applications in Office. It's called (in the most straightforward naming manner I can imagine) the Template Blog and they posted some updated for year 2008 calendars at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/results.aspx?qu=CT102633041033&av=TPL000&ofcresset=1
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Friday, March 07, 2008 7:48 AM

Still "living in the OneNote cache"

Last week when my tablet died I lost the hard drive which held the most important notebook I use in my day to day work. I was fortunate enough to have shared the notebook and connected to it from a second machine. Here's what I immediately did to ensure
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Monday, February 11, 2008 9:03 AM

Testing OneNote performance with huge amounts of text on a page

I was reading the newsgroups a few weeks ago and saw this question : "Will onenote run better if I keep my pages shorter?" OneNote performance is pretty good overall, but I had also noticed when I was creating my Project Gutenberg importer that things
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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
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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
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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
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:14 AM

Comparing a tester to an "enthusiastic user"

Back in October , I made the statement that I had to transition from being an enthusiastic user of OneNote to a tester when I left Outlook to move to the OneNote team. I've been thinking about that for awhile and wanted to explain what I meant. I think
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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