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Note from the EditorWell it's three weeks since STAR and my mailbox is still full. That'll teach me to be controversial in front of a testing audience! Anyway, lots of new cool content this month so browse around the site and have fun. Also, don't miss the Braidy Tester's interview with Rob Straavaldson who is literally one of the best testers we have at this company. I tried to hire him in my group and he said no ... clearly his testing skills are better than his career judgment :-) Regards,
- James Whittaker - | |
Tester Center Featured VideoA showcase for videos about software testing. To see more videos, check out the Videos Page.
In this interview by Michael Hunter, Bryan Lipscy discusses the hallmarks of a great tester and Bryan's work with testing the help system.
Technical ArticlesCommon Test Patterns and Reuse of Test Designs
By Mark Folkerts, Tim Lamey, and John Evans
Summary: 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 use them to simplify the creation of subsequent test designs. | Bug Story IIS 7.0
By Kevin Beto, Microsoft Corporation, April 2008
A story about troubleshooting a bug that didn't manifest itself until tested on IIS 7.0. | Selecting Rows Randomly from a Large Table
By Marcelo De Barros & Kenton Gidewall, Microsoft Corporation, April 2008
The authors offer new ideas on how to select random rows from a large table. |
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