Microsoft Tester Center

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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What Is Tester Center?

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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Testing Magic

Careful observers may have noticed changes trickling into tester center over the last few weeks. A group of us are meeting regularly and working through the content backlog (and bug list) and freshening up the site.

I’d like to highlight one article recently posted to the test library – it’s Josh Poley’s article on Magic Numbers. It’s a comprehensive list of numbers every tester should know about when testing inputs.


Tuesday, Oct 13

Featured Content      Featured Content RSS

NEW!! Test the Design and Not Only the Implementation
Don't forget to review the design when testing. The problem with only testing the implementation is that one may miss the case when the design is incorrect in the first place.
by Vishal Chowdhary
Magic Numbers: Integers
In testing software, we often miss an entire class of bugs just because we don't happen to think about one category of inputs and how they might adversely affect the system. This article contains a listing of numbers along with background explanations for useful numbers to use in testing inputs.
by Josh Poley
A Bug Story: Multi-Threading
Find out how the Office PerformancePoint Server team handled a multi-threading bug....
by Ricky Kurniawan

Testing Events      Testing Events RSS

Swiss Testing Day
March 17, 2010. Kongresshaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Tuesday, Oct 27
EuroStar
November 30 - December 3. Stockholm, Sweden
Friday, Jul 31

Featured Videos

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

After launching a video, click "full screen" to view full-screen.

Downloads      Downloads RSS

Spec Explorer
Spec Explorer is a software development tool for advanced model-based specification and conformance testing.
Tuesday, Oct 27 by Microsoft
Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (provided).
Wednesday, Oct 22
Windows CE Testing Tools
Building strong, reliable embedded devices is critical in today's market. Testing a device or driver can involve assessing many different elements from security, to usability, to performance. This is why Microsoft is working to provide the following... More...
Wednesday, Oct 22

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Keith Stobie
Keith is a principal SDET in the Protocol Team at Microsoft. Keith dives into a multitude of test topics in his blogs, such as model-based testing.

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

Check out blog posts from the Google testing community.

Software Testing Forum

Database Migration
Hello Frinds, We are doing a project 'Database Migration Tool'. For design perpose we want UML diagrams. Can anyone know detailed process of database migration. Our platform is .NET and C# is implementation language. We are going to use XML as intermidiate language. Migration of... More...
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