More thoughts from me on testing

There’s been s lot reported lately on the Equifax security breach. Equifax failed to apply a security patch for Apache Struts in a timely manner, and attackers took advantage of this to get at a whole lot of customer data. What we don’t know at this time is whether this was a fluke due to a…

Clearing out some random news and thoughts. None of them worth a post, but worth sharing…probably. A few days ago, I reposted the Microsoft SDET personas I originally wrote (5? years ago) for the MSDN tester center. They could use a bit of updating, but they hold the test of time fairly well (link here)….

The folks at Hexawise just published an interview with me as part of their new “Testing Smarter” series. It’s the typical stuff plus one mini-rant. The interview is here, and there’s a(n empty) reddit thread as well.

It’s been an odd week with lots going on…and little going on at the same time. I’m taking some time off, starting with a ski trip next week that I hope goes as well as I imagine. In the meantime, as usual, I found a few things worth sharing. That’s all for this week. Next…

I feel like today’s a good day to share a few stories about my first few months at Microsoft, and the (very) small part I played in shipping Windows 95. My start at Microsoft is a story on its own, and probably worth recapping here in an abbreviated form. I started at Microsoft in January…