test blogging

I'm not much of a blogger - although for various reasions I'll give it try over the several month. 

Why I don't care for it - is that it's my nature to review and validate. Perhaps this is why I'm working in Test for MS at the moment.   Blogging seems to me an art and as such some of good, while others finger paint.

 At present I'm test lead on P&P Composite UI WPF client, that can be fold over at http://www.codeplex.com/prism,  Prism was the name given the project.

 On the test side, how I approach testing can be pretty encompassing.  I have done military aircraft for several years, while very cool.  Testing application has another set of challenges. Especially as you get into emerging Grid and Mesh computing.  Hopefully I'll get to some posting on testing those type of architectures.

For the Composite UI, one of my learnings has been usingthe UIAutomation framework that comes with WPF.  It's very powerful.  In order to help our learning curve the team is using White from Thoughtworks to write up UIAutmation Test.  To learn more go to http://www.codeplex.com/white.

 The Composite UI StockTrader RI is actually shipped with both automated Unit and Acceptance Test.  Take a look at them to get a basic understanding of how to implement the test.

 A good start point is here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa348551.aspx

The Test areas that are being covered are:

White/Black Box Testing

Automated BVTs  : Postive test cases

Automated Accetpance Test : Postive, Negative test cases

Security

Performance/Stress

Document Review