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The Microsoft Tester Center showcases the test discipline as an integral part of the software development lifecycle, describes test roles and responsibilities, and promotes the test investments required to deliver high-quality software.

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Tester Center is a volunteer effort, mostly by Microsoft people passionate about the test discipline, although we don’t want to be just about testing at Microsoft.  What we’d like to do is participate and share in the online testing community beyond Microsoft.

Currently Tester Center hosts testing-related articles, videos, book reviews, and links to blogs, events, and downloads but we’re open to your contribution and suggestions.  Your participation is welcome, even if you don’t work at Microsoft.  Please check out the links in the “We Want to Hear From You” section below.  Thanks for visiting!

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Tester Center Is Back

Well, it took us a while but the Microsoft Tester Center is back with a newly-designed site.  We know there are still a few rough edges but hey, we are a volunteer organization doing this in our spare time.  We have some testing articles in the queue that aren't available yet but that's the next step.  In the meantime, we'll be communicating about tester center via the "Latest From Tester Center" section of the home page and the Tester Center blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/TesterCenter.  Check out the latest blog posts from our roster of Microsoft tester bloggers in the "Tester Team Blogs" section and the latest MSDN Testing Forum posts in the "Software Testing Forum" section.  Give us your feedback on the site via the links in the "We Want to Hear From You" section.

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Tuesday, Nov 25

Featured Content

June Test Column w/ Jason Taylor
What is a cross-site request forgery attack? How do I test our website to see if it is vulnerable to this attack?
NEW TEST ARTICLE: Common Test Patterns and Reuse of Test Designs
By Mark Folkerts, Tim Lamey, and John Evans The traditional test-design process is very repetitive, yet many testing problems have generic elements that easily could be reused in the creation of subsequent test designs. This article suggests that you capture these patterns and u... More...
New Tester Center Spotlight: Bryan Lipscy
In this interview by Michael Hunter, Bryan Lipscy discusses the hallmarks of a great tester and Bryan's work with testing the help system.

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Pairwise Independent Combinatorial Testing (PICT) Tool
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Featured Videos

These short 10- to 15-minute videos feature interviews with testers and “how-to” information on accomplishing specific testing tasks.

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Featured Team Member

John Guin
John Guin started in Product Support for Windows 95 tech support. After a year on the phones (all the stories you hear are true, every last one of them), he moved on to testing Outlook. After testing every single application named “Outlook” for 10 years, including Outlook for Windows 3.1 and the Macintosh, he decided there might be more to Microsoft than e-mail clients and servers. He moved over to the OneNote team and is currently a lead there. He’s trying to run a testing blog about OneNote with the big limitation of not talking about new features in development.

Latest Blog Posts

 

Blogs from the Tester Community

Scott Barber
Scott Barber is the CTO of PerfTestPlus, Inc. Executive Director of the Association of Software Testing and co-founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability. Scott’s blog is about performance testing and best practices.

Matt Heusser
Matt Heusser is a popular dev/test/trainer. The co-founder of the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, Matt's blog applies systems thinking to the entire development process - with a focus on testing.

Google Testing Blog

Blog posts from the Google testing community.

Software Testing Forum

Where can I find a generic checklist for (1) creating technical/generic test cases related to testing SSIS packages ? and (2) SSRS Reports
Folks,

This is from a newbie's viewpoint. Could someone here help with a pointer to a generic checklist for (1) creating technical/generic test cases related to testing SSIS packages ? and (2) SSRS Reports.

Thanks a ton in advance.

Regards,
K.
Friday, Jul 10 by kitrak
bulk insert with four part names - fails with "Invalid object name"
I am using SQL 2008. following command FAILs :BULK INSERT [AW-2008].[BULKINSERT].[dbo].[int999] FROM 'C:\BULKINSERT\INT999.txt' WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR = ',')error  :Msg 208, Level 16, State 82, Line 4Invalid object name 'int999'.Following command WORKs ( so my linked server is wor... More...
Friday, Jul 10 by Asmita
Outlook 2007 **message receive time** - New regulations are killing my business- help!
As crazy as this sounds it is true. I need to be able to have outlook 2007 check for new messages quicker than 1 minute. I know this can be done, it is just a parameter..  I am losing jobs right and left due to lag time. This is due to new regulations that went into affect recent... More...
Thursday, Jul 9 by RADTJR

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