A consultant's perspective on FAST ESP and SharePoint Technologies.

Tester, if you’re serious about your job you will have 2 computers or more

I know, it’s nothing new, not that I’m going to win an award for this; just want to tell my story. Happened that I was into testing yesterday, prepared my data, test case, environment… and after 2 hours of processing the SSIS package failed… what happened? Read More...

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 10:20 AM by Ricardo Loo | 2 Comments

Planning, planning, planning… product or tool

I was digging into my current reading material “Testing Computer Software” by Cem Kaner and I ran through this phrase: “A test plan is a valuable tool to the extent that it helps you manage your testing project and find bugs. Beyond that, it is a diversion Read More...

Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:29 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

Patterns and Practices: SharePoint Guidance

The patterns and practices group just released their latest installment; it helps architects and developers to design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. Have I followed P&P's recommendations? Check for yourself! http://www.microsoft.com/spg Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 6:02 PM by Ricardo Loo | 1 Comments

I hate ISA Server!!!

Ahh after some hours trying to put some load on the servers my pal Israel Martinez Velez found that ISA server was blocking connections even when the IP's of the agent servers were in a "white list". If you have to load test a solution just make yourself Read More...

Posted Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:16 PM by Ricardo Loo | 3 Comments