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Michael Hunter , our very own Braidy Tester, interviews me about software testing. Yep, it has been a while, well over a year, since i've done pure software testing. But fortunately, he let me pick the 5 questions i wanted to answer =) http://www.ddj.com/blog/debugblog/archives/2007/05/five_questions_17.html
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John, our only SDET (tester) on the team, has written a couple of blog entries on what we've learned (sometimes the hard way) about testing open source projects: What’s different about testing open source projects? (Part 1) Recommendations for corporate
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Rob asked me to get the word out that the Team System people are looking for some testers to conduct usability studies. You can find more info on Rob’s blog and on Steve’s blog .
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These tips apply for all testers, not just Microsofties. What other tips would you include in this list? Bend over backwards to help your dev You’re going to be breaking his/her code for the rest of your careers together, so you want to have a great working
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One of my coworkers in Visual Studio has created this really cool tool for creating and testing Regular Expressions. I’ve just recently started using .NET Regular Expressions in my Editor testing, so take my word for it that this tool greatly helps with
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Finally, the promised post. Types of Controls There are three types of controls you’ll discover when automating UI Standard Windows controls Owner-drawn controls – controls that have the functionality of Standard Windows controls, but have custom drawing.
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I met with my team’s automation experts a few weeks back to get their input on when to automate and when to manually test. The general rule of thumb has always been to use common sense. If you’re only going to run the test one or two times or the test
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By popular demand , I asked Josh about doing a live video segment of Maddog to bring to live the Maddog concepts ScottGu had posted about one Friday morning. That afternoon, Josh shot these videos of what was supposed to be me teaching Marie the basics
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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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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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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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In our test case world, we assume a test case fails, unless we log pass. We changed our way of thinking a while ago, where we used to assume a test case passes, unless we log a failure. I wish I could give an example of a bug I’ve caught because of the
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