Monthly Archives: October 2005

What industry sources do you tak into account for our ongoing engineering improvements?   I  use a StickyMinds.com powerpass for doing some research.  With that you could read the online Better Software magazine.I’ve recently heard that Software Testing and Performance is … Continue reading →

A Tester asks: How grow through the testing ranks to test architect? By being a tester and getting promoted for improving testing or for project management or automation writing skills.    My reply:  I’m not sure what you mean by … Continue reading →

A tester asks: early on in the product cycle when there are few features are testable, do you develop "less powerful" testing scenarios, or just the parts of the of "powerful scenarios" that are supported at the time (fill in … Continue reading →

PNSQC Trip Report   I found this year’s Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) good, but a few times with no talks of interest to me during certain time periods.  As always they had both software test and software quality … Continue reading →

When a feature team at Microsoft completes a chunk of work (new feature or set of bug fixes), they "reverse integrate" (RI) into the main branch of the source control system.   From: A fellow tester Subject: Test methodolgy question … Continue reading →

After almost 2 years of neglect, I am restarting this blog.  I hope to post seveal times a month. I’ve just moved into MSN Search and have a slew of back logged items to post including WOPR5 and PNSQC trip … Continue reading →