Min Kwan Park's bLog : Personal

New team....

mkpark — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:46:00 GMT

About 3 weeks ago, I moved to new team for Dynamic analysis. I'm still QA but this time, I have my own team to lead. I hope that I can lead this team to right direction and can provide great product to customers. ;)

my opion on TDD...

mkpark — Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:40:00 GMT

Around me, I'm seeing some people who are very deep into TDD.

Well, as QA, whenever I heard their mythical belief on TDD, It makes me think why TDD is believed that much.

TDD, it sounds like very testing oriented. yes it is. I agree. and it is good approach. but is it all? and can it find all issues? I don't think so. but many of TDD believers want to believe that it is the final solution for everything.

IMHO, I think that it is just a trend which is good trend because it is focusing on the quality of code at the beginning. however, I don't think that it is everything or final thing which can solve every problem or prevent all issues from your code.

Adding to TDD, we need to understand the bigger picture. you should see the forest with trees, too. otherwise,you will lose harmony in your overall design and process.

No title.....

mkpark — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 03:37:00 GMT

Well, My first computer experience was from my 5th grade in elementary school(I attended to school in South Korea. so the school system may not be same like US. anyway, I was 11year old.). it was MSX(from japan) with GS-Basic and AppleII(I guess). those machines were so interesting and exciting to young geeky boy.

That time, I always dreamed to make games and some interesting hacking tools. :)and when I first met the DOS. I was too excited because I could save something on other than tape. over middle school, I learned fortan and Basic. it was quite interesting experience to see how I can make computer to do something for me. and I always wondered who made that kind of S/Ws. when I first used Turbo C(it might be 1.0, I guess) in high school. I dreamed to meet the people who make that kind of things and to work for/with them someday.

Now after quite a while later, I'm working for Visual Studio which is most powerful dev tool in the world(at least in my opinion.) and around me, there are many people who I used to be eager to work for/with. it is quite interesting feeling. Life is really interesting to live. :)

My baby wants to play with my notebook compueter....

mkpark — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:21:00 GMT

I have a daughter who is 14 month old now.

From few months ago, suddenly she started to play with my notebook computer. so whenever I turn it on, she comes to me and just stare at me with hopeful eyes asking me to put her up on my lap and let her play with my notebook. well... I'm not sure whether it is good for eyes and developement. but what I can see is that she loves to mimic what I do normally. so I'd better be good role model for her to follow.

Anyway, back to what I want to say, sometimes I'm really supprised by what she did on the machine. sometimes, she turned it off with proper key sequences and sometimes she launched several apps and play with them. and does many interesting things. I know it just happens by chance because she always just smashes keyboard with her little hands. but it is still amazing to see the result. :)

My habits from my job...

mkpark — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:08:00 GMT

After being QA, I got some habits in my normal life... :)

- Alway, don't believe anything until I see and test it.: Well, it may not be from my job. but I got more tendency not to believe anything at the beginning.

- Try to get repro steps even with very dangerous cases...: One time, I got problem with my car on freeway. I was driving on freeway, and my car started not to accelerate and losing power and I could see an warning light on my console. after turning off and on engine again, it did disappear, but I tried to repro it. and I got the repro steps and finally I could convince my service guy to fix it. (it was actually recall class issue which was recalled about a 10 month later.)

- Want to know how it is changed.: Always, my first question to my dev side co-worker after they fix bugs is how you fix it? and now even in my normal life, I want to know what the difference is between before and after for any type of changes.

- Find bugs in many products which I use: With any of my toys, I always try to find out any issue. and try to break it via logical defects. and I could see many of interesting results from them. my wife doesn't like that because I almost broke some kitchen wares. :)

I may get more habbits from my job. anyway, it is interesting to see how job can impact on people. :)