A Little Q & A

I meant to post this a few days ago, but I just passed my one-year anniversary on the Lync (formerly Office Communicator) team. I enjoyed my time in the engineering excellence team at Microsoft, but I didn’t realize how much I missed being part of a software team until, well – a year or so…

This is my third post on TestProject. The previous posts are Getting Started with Test Project and Experimenting with Mobile Automation. The last thing I wanted to explore a bit with TestProject is directly writing some code for some (potentially) more advanced testing. Currently, the TestProject SDK supports Java, but SDKs for JavaScript, Python, C#, and Groovy are…

In a conversation last week at STAR, someone was talking about how far testers should debug an issue. Personally, I don’t like it when testers only report the surface of the bug, and I think good testers always dig a little deeper to see what other more interesting issues may be lurking a layer or…

First things first, I’m going to take the rest of the year off after today. Next week is a holiday, and then December is madness. I’ll do a few more posts in my other blog, and then hit the ground running in 2025. And that’s all for this week, and that’s all for 2025 while…

I recently wrote a bit about my role on the Lync test team at Microsoft. I thought it may be interesting to share a bigger picture of what the team does for those interested in how we do what we do. At the surface is the "who" and the "what" of the team. We have…

Brent Jensen and I found some time together recently to talk about testing. For some reason, we decided to record it. Worse yet, we decided to share it! I suppose we’ll keep this up until we either run out of things to say (unlikely), or until the internet tells us to shut up (much more…