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Our application (web based) is built in .Net and Infragistics. It has 6 modules. One module is similar to product management, in this we need to enter product title, product details, etc. Newly created product names appear on the homepage. So while testing,
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The one that says that it is erasing my old email when it really isn't! I like to erase old email. For some reason the web mail I am using will not allow me to delete my old email. One day I spent over an hour attempting to delete old email, when I realized
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Our team uses a web-based tool to test our product. In one page, we can input tree-like structured data. In some conditions, we have to create a child under one node of that tree by clicking a drop-down list to select the type of the child object. The
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In one application there is a small line of whitespace between a custom toolbar and the menu; clicking this whitespace causes an unhandled exception due to a null pointer. I found this by accident just trying to access certain options. This is my favorite
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Of all the bugs I've came across I'll never forget this one because it was so severe and easy to miss. Later, when I was a Test Lead it was the first thing I added to my sign-off checklist… A few years ago, our product was practically out the door when
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When my first test manager left Microsoft he told the team this was his favorite bug and it is easy to see why (testers are often asked about their favorite bugs when they leave). On his first week on the job one of my friends hit a crash in the speech
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The most interesting recent bug was a Vista upgrade error that was initially assigned to my component. We had a couple of Watson reports where the symptom was there would be an error logged during upgrade which caused a fatal error and a roll-back. Unfortunately
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There was this bug that I remember even 4 years later now. Since we expect our users to install our product on operating systems of different languages, we do globalization testing on this. So for the Beta release, I installed our product on a Japanese
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During Windows 95, I was a beta tester. It was the first time I'd seen a 'Recycle' bin on a Microsoft platform. (We had some undelete functionality in DOS that required you to know the first letter of the file you wanted to undelete on the FAT file system.
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Problem: Release To Web (RTW) for Office Online site and we were seeing features breaking randomly with no reason at all. A lot of debugging led to no indication of what the problem was. Cause: Testing features before RTW, testers did not catch the issue
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Problem: We had instrumented our code to spit out timing markers at various points of pages that were tracked via automation and measured actual end-user download times 24/7 on the production site. The results showed that 25% of the time the download
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Elfriede Dustin sent me a review copy of Implementing Automated Software Testing (IAST), which she and her colleagues Thom Garrett and Bernie Gauf recently published. I am familiar with some of Elfriede's work on test automation, so I was looking forward
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My favorite bugs are the errors that generate themselves recursively. I have two examples: The first involved an error logging mechanism that logged each exception in a database. At some point our database started throwing exceptions because the disk
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I was happy after I upgraded my laptop's memory from 1GB to 2GB until I noticed that sometimes XP just won't shut down when I try to hibernate. It sits there at "Save personal setting" forever. One day I put it to hibernate and before I saw it shutdown,
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I opened a bug 1.5 years ago about an issue where the product would stop displaying updates to the user in a rare scenario dealing with boundaries; we have gotten customer reports about a similar issue that could be the same root cause and are linked
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