Testing Smarter

I’ve been thinking about testing activities and tester roles lately, or more lately, since it seems to be a recurring topic on this blog. I have to admit that I remain a bit surprised how often testers argue about what is and what isn’t testing. So – let me throw a few examples of potential…

My team at Microsoft is starting to use code coverage a little more diligently. Code coverage has been used for some time on the team, but we’re just now getting to a common approach and recording mechanism. There are a few things about our approach that are a bit different than I’ve seen most other…

I’d like to announce my candidacy for…no – not that kind of politics, I thought I’d drop a few comments on office politics. Too often, people see “politics” as the evil underbelly of the corporate world, and that competency in office politics requires that you can backstab your coworkers with no remorse, find a variety…

Some combination of fever and remnants of generic brand Sudafed from the building 30 first-aid cabinet seem to be forcing me to perform another round of keyboard pounding hoping that something close to comprehensible English will spew forth. We’ll see how it goes – luckily this is more or less a personal blog (where I…

I mentioned this at TestBash a few weeks ago (and on a yet-unreleased ABTesting podcast) – and probably on twitter too, but my third “secret” project in a row at Microsoft (following Xbox One and the science project to make Android apps run on Windows Phone) was finally announced to the world on November 2nd….

It’s been a big week… First off, who does not want a Cybertruck? Areti Panou had a nice post this week with Some Ideas for Reducing “Release Decision” Time I did a lot of reminiscing on past purchases when I found Amazon reports of all of my purchases back to 2006 I like pretty much everything…