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Brent's Favorite Bug
This bug is my favorite mostly because of how my experience with it transformed my career.It was...
Date: 05/25/2012
JMike's Favorite Bug
I found this bug while working as one of the first QA engineers at the MathWorks (makers of MATLAB...
Date: 02/09/2012
Mohan Sagar's Favorite Bug
I am working as a SharePoint QA. We developed the Status Reports project. It is basically used to...
Date: 09/14/2011
CAST Away
Last week found me braving the Grand Rapids, Michigan summer (heat! humidity! sun! loved it!) to...
Date: 08/11/2010
Talking Clocks
We have a set of clocks counting down the time until our next big milestone, one where all the...
Date: 07/02/2010
I'm A Twit!
I'm on Twitter now; @humbugreality if you're interested. No promises whether I'll post there more...
Date: 06/25/2010
Reliable Intent
I've been super busy talking with as many testers and leads on my team as I can, gathering data on...
Date: 05/13/2010
Sometimes Sausage Making Is Beautiful!
Seeing Microsoft from the inside, I often don't understand what is going on. Sometimes, however,...
Date: 05/12/2010
Stressing The Matrix
Recently I saw a way to describe any particular stress test that I liked:First, define the sets of...
Date: 04/21/2010
Denise Signer's Favorite Bug
Earlier this semester my capstone (= senior project) group wanted to print a 30-page Word 2007...
Date: 04/20/2010
I'm Stressed!
David Treadwell once advised me to take a job where I knew what I was doing about fifty percent of...
Date: 04/19/2010
My Very Busy CPU
Hmmm...I start a build and all eight of my cores gets busy - what's up with that? <g/>
Date: 04/07/2010
How To Increase Your Chances Of Surviving A Microsoft Interview
I've talked with several people recently about how they can increase their chances of making it...
Date: 04/07/2010
The New Guy
My first week on Windows Phone went great! Not that I did much of anything other than set up my new...
Date: 04/01/2010
Raman's Favorite Bug
We were seeing weird issues for Microsoft Systems Management Server's (SMS) Software Update Reports...
Date: 03/19/2010
Status
2010 is going great for me!2009, on the other hand, was the sort of year I wouldn't wish on anybody...
Date: 03/10/2010
John Mac Millan's Favorite Bug
I was testing a radar system that controlled the guns and missile launchers on a naval combat ship....
Date: 03/09/2010
Sumit Kalra's Favorite Bug
Our application (web based) is built in .Net and Infragistics. It has 6 modules. One module is...
Date: 08/27/2009
Thelma Whitehorton's Favorite Bug
The one that says that it is erasing my old email when it really isn't!I like to erase old email....
Date: 08/05/2009
Donny Liu's Favorite Bug
Our team uses a web-based tool to test our product. In one page, we can input tree-like structured...
Date: 07/29/2009
Sherry Chupka's Favorite Bug
In one application there is a small line of whitespace between a custom toolbar and the menu;...
Date: 07/27/2009
The Bug That Makes Craig Laugh Every Time
When my first test manager left Microsoft he told the team this was his favorite bug and it is easy...
Date: 06/15/2009
Tom Whalen's Favorite Bug
The most interesting recent bug was a Vista upgrade error that was initially assigned to my...
Date: 06/12/2009
Anutthara's Favorite Bug
There was this bug that I remember even 4 years later now. Since we expect our users to install our...
Date: 06/08/2009
Bruce Shankle's Favorite Bug
During Windows 95, I was a beta tester. It was the first time I'd seen a 'Recycle' bin on a...
Date: 06/05/2009
Vamshidar Rawal's Other Favorite Bug
Problem:Release To Web (RTW) for Office Online site and we were seeing features breaking randomly...
Date: 06/01/2009
One Of Vamshidar Rawal's Favorite Bugs
Problem:We had instrumented our code to spit out timing markers at various points of pages that were...
Date: 05/29/2009
Implementing Automated Software Testing
Elfriede Dustin sent me a review copy of Implementing Automated Software Testing (IAST), which she...
Date: 05/13/2009
Jurgen Appelo's Favorite Bug
My favorite bugs are the errors that generate themselves recursively. I have two examples:The first...
Date: 05/11/2009
Xu's Favorite Bug
I was happy after I upgraded my laptop's memory from 1GB to 2GB until I noticed that sometimes XP...
Date: 05/08/2009
Scott Banning's Possibly Most Frustrating Bug
I opened a bug 1.5 years ago about an issue where the product would stop displaying updates to the...
Date: 05/04/2009
Jeetendra Kukreja's Favorite Bug (2 of 2)
So, I am typing some value for a file name in the project palette in my product and I happen to type...
Date: 04/27/2009
Jeetendra Kukreja's Favorite Bug (1 of 2)
The XAML editor would not show up if the user did not have admin access – Most dev’s and...
Date: 04/24/2009
How We Test Software At Microsoft (Sometimes, Somewhens)
Some time back, Alan Page sent me a review copy of How We Test Software At Microsoft (HWTSAM), which...
Date: 04/22/2009
Anand Thakker's Favorite Bug
When we were very close to release of the first version of our product, I found a bug in which the...
Date: 04/20/2009
Alan Myrvold's Favorite Bug
I get excited about bugs, especially ones that I learn from. Years ago, I was testing some data...
Date: 04/17/2009
Eric Sink's Favorite Bug
I once worked for a company that had a product that caused OTHER applications to crash.We didn't...
Date: 04/13/2009
Jake P’s Favorite Bug
You can call me Ishmael, err...Jake. We had been getting a bizarre error reported intermittently...
Date: 04/10/2009
Alan Hynes' Favorite Bug
I was giving the customer (Product Owner) a first pre-User Acceptance Test look at a modified...
Date: 04/06/2009
Baskets Of Bugs
My life of late seems to be one bug after another. It all starts with my product: Live Mesh for Mac....
Date: 04/02/2009
Snow In Seattle On April Fool's!
It is snowing here in Seattle today, 1 April 2009. Mum Nature evidently has a sense of humor!
Date: 04/01/2009
JakeBrake's Favorite Bug
I refer to years ago where a major "production" defect in a networked military tactical data system...
Date: 03/20/2009
Cathy McBride's Favorite Bug
A number of years ago I was working with a development team that had been acquired by my company....
Date: 03/16/2009
Jonathan Kohl's Favorite Bug
It's hard to pick a favorite, but this is a recent bug story:Report: customer support alerted the...
Date: 03/13/2009