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MINNEAPOLIS AND BACK TO TALK CLOUD TESTING
12 November 09 03:41 PM

Who in their right mind agrees to fly all morning from Seattle to Minneapolis, drive to a local software testing special interest group (SIG), talk for 90 minutes, and fly back home that same night? For a number of reasons, the most important of which Read More...

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Microsoft Cargo Container Data Center comes Online
02 July 09 05:29 PM

Recently I ran into a friend who was reading chapter 14 of How We Test Software at Microsoft . He commented on the picture in the book of the Rackable Ice Cube container full of servers. This was pretty cool to think about purchasing servers pre-racked Read More...

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AN UNEXPECTED PLUG FOR “HOW WE TEST SOFTWARE AT MICROSOFT”
19 June 09 04:16 PM

This BLOG post is a thank you to all the individuals who have read “How We Test Software at Microsoft,” and posted something on the web about it (that Alan, BJ and I been able to find that is). We are thrilled by the very positive response readers of Read More...

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Ship your service into production and then start testing!
03 June 09 11:31 PM

Think about Services shifting the Testing into Production The topic of Testing in Production (TiP) is a growing area of debate in SaaS and S+S testing groups. While I don’t personally really believe you should ship your service and then start testing Read More...

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1+1 Redundancy Just Isn't Good Enough
22 April 09 06:22 PM

1+1 redundancy for production services is a flawed design approach. +1 redundancy is like the kind of logic my wife uses with me when I go on an overnight business trip. She will insist that I take at least two pairs of socks in my bag even though I plan Read More...

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