January 2005 - Posts
It’s really the simple things in life. Ever had a long list of parameters for a method and didn’t want to have to look down at the tooltip to know where you were at in this list? Check out Edit.PasteParameterTip. Under the General Development Settings,
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I knew i had a momentary lapse into "good fashion sense" when i picked out AnotherEon001 . It was lacking the 3 column view, but i decided to go with color scheme over layout. Fortunately, Josh figured out a way to get the best of both worlds. Check out
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Update 1/24/2005 Snowflake and Sunshine went to a great home last night. They were picked up by someone who runs a local bird rescue. She said that she was going to keep the birds as her own, rather then passing them along to another home. I know Sunshine
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It’s been a while since I looked for strange and odd Google hits in my referrers list. I only looked at the incoming hits for the past 7 days, but was still able to make an interesting list… I want to be a bartender – so do I! Roland and Susan Delgado
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Do you have any software testing topics you want to hear more about? Here are a few suggestions that I’ve already received from readers: How do you go about automating? How much is automated and how much is manual? How does QA fit into the product lifecycle
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Josh went around and video’ed a bunch of us at work in our offices. It has been an interesting experience sharing an office with the PM for the features I’m testing, to say the least. My job is to break all the stuff that Sean demo’ed, and then to write
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Description If you are unfamiliar with the File Tab Channel, check out my post about it at New Window Management Features for Visual Studio 2005. Nightly Scenarios Verify opening 11 files displays the correct number of visible tabs in the File Tab Channel
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Description If you are unfamiliar with Tool Window Docking or Dock Targets, check out my post about it at New Window Management Features for Visual Studio 2005. Nightly Scenarios Verify all 5 IDE-Center and all 4 IDE-Side Docking Targets appear when dragging
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Description If you are unfamiliar with the IDE Navigator, check out my post about it at New Window Management Features for Visual Studio 2005. Nightly Scenarios Verify selecting a file from the IDE Navigator opens it in the editor and it has focus Verify
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A couple of months ago, I posted an entry called What is a Nighlty Test Case? I mentioned how I’ve been tasked with coming up with a way to share our team’s nightlies with the community for review. I’ve been working on this off and on this week, and I
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Just got back the results tonight from my 2nd Kyu exam. The only comments were about my back fist strike not having enough snap, but this is something I’ve been aware of. And there was a comment to make the motions of my kata a little bigger. The head
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Since both my husband and I were sick over the New Year’s weekend, and I’m talking about being so sick that I couldn’t even play Halo 2, I’m starting my New Year’s Resolutions today. Resolutions that I will be able to keep I will not leave dirty socks
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As promised, I said I would ask some of the people from my team after they returned from vacation about the history of LogPass. I met with one of our SDET Leads to find out more. Here’s what I learned. Logging failure by default is a Test-Driven Development
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