Sunny Sunday morning. Everyone still dead asleep. Perfect time to pick up what I had started months ago: my HIRS@M series. Sorry for keeping you waiting. [:$] #1 – Purpose In this post I want to shed light on the purpose of reviewing specs. Reasons for which I value a…
Today I was reading an interesting internet article by Andy Jordan called Quality, Not Testing. Not in the least because of the comments added to it. As Jordan writes, quality and testing "are … very closely tied together" and as such, I would say, we tend to use them synonymous to each…
Quality is something that has been in my veins for ages already. Although many around me might expect so, I cannot claim I was born with it. I can clearly recall my father rebuking me because of my sloppiness. Maybe that was just adolescent matters, who knows; long hair, careless…
… and test. As you might have noticed: the sub title to my blog. [:D] Last Sunday's great 'pat on the back' from Vjekslav Babic (once again: thanx!) explicitly mentioned the test part of my blog and, to be honest, next to the fact that it made me somewhat shy, it also triggered…
As I wrote on my previous blog post, I “… was greatly impressed by [the Test Manager’s] ability to support manual testing and even let you record and code them … ” [… Read More …] Yesterday and today I spent some time to download and install the Virtual Machines…
I regard myself one of the lucky ones that had the chance to attend a class by Bj Rollison. An inspiring test veteran who, in all aspects, exhibits the notion that testing is more than just trying code and finding bugs. Through MSDN I stumbled across his blog, which he…
Now, after my first blog post on reporting bugs, you’re in the right mood to start selling your issues. But you might be in the mist on what I mean with to-the-point repro scenario. If so read on; if not … also read on, don’t be afraid to learn. [;)]…
You’re sitting in front of your computer doing one of your daily tasks in, let’s say NAV. But @*^%$#@$$!!!!, the darn system does not do what you expect it to. Just one of these days? Might be, but it seems to you the system is not just doing something different…
It must have been somewhere in 2006 that we started testing the Role Tailored Client (RTC) and I must confess it was very hard to love RTC. But they said it was going to be a great product and it was my job at MS to test. So I simply…