Collation, DateTime, SParse Column and XML
2nd Annual QA/Test Job Posting Study from dfrank
Please visit this website for the QA/Test job posting study. Enjoy
Author: QingsongYao Date: 01/01/2013
Testing the Limits with Gerald Weinberg
Please visit here for such a great interview with Gerald Weinberg In the latest installment of...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 01/01/2013
Code isn't just for programmers. It's a part of the world we live in.
A federal judge learned to code.Enjoy it.
Author: QingsongYao Date: 01/01/2013
Notes on the Hadoop and HBase markets
If you are interesting to know some insight about Hadoop/Base market, you should go to...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 01/01/2013
A Tester’s Commitments by James Bach
Please follow this blog for A Tester’s Commitments by James Bach. Here is the first paragraph...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 01/01/2013
Blogs I usually follows
I like to share the RSS feeds I followed for reference: Monash Research All Things Quality QA...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 12/26/2012
Common Engineering Principle and Practices
In this blog, I will discussion a set of commonly used engineering principle and practices, namely,...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 12/26/2012
People never learn from others
Learning from other’s experience is a good thing. However, what I found is that in most of the...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 12/07/2012
My past testing experience
I like to share some of my past testing experience using the below slides. Enjoying This is an...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 10/24/2012
My take away on Seattle Technical Forum : Cloud Computing Revealed
This is my take away from Seattle Tech Forum Cloud Computing section. I tried to write down what I...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 10/24/2012
A good testing slides
I came cross the slideshare web site and find this very interesting talk related to tester. I try to...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 10/24/2012
Technology Radar from ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks is one the best consult and technologycompany. The technology radar document describe...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 10/23/2012
享技术，聚朋友。Tcon2012专题 at qa.taobao.com
You can look at https://www.taobaotest.com/notices/82 to find 2012年ADC技术嘉年华资料, You can get the latest...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 08/13/2012
The journal of becoming senior tester (3) - becoming a professional QA
Today, I like to discuss another career for senior SDET which is becoming professional tester. In...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 04/15/2012
Software Testing should be challenge, creative and enjoyable
I believe the task of software testing should be creative and enjoyable. In term of creativity of...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 03/27/2012
Best practices for building Windows Azure service
Hello, Guys I like to share some practices to build Azure based services which are used for our...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 03/27/2012
Examples of MsTest Extension
Update on July, 3, 2014. I attached the binaries for this project in the blog post. You need to use...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 03/27/2012
From Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery
This Friday, four of us will give a presentation on how we build and test our SQL Azure Database...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 03/27/2012
How are you testing scenarios?
This is one conversion about how we testing our scenario Depend on the project, we may have...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 03/27/2012
SASQAG Monthly Meeting "Signals in Testing"/How Google Testing Software
Tonight, I attended SASQAG Monthly Meeting. Jason Arbon from utest.com give a talk about "Signals in...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 03/27/2012
The journal of becoming senior tester (15) - Take time to thinking
In recent days, I tried to understand how we should teach or how student learn. My experience of...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 03/09/2012
The journal of becoming senior tester (14) - Doing things differently
One day, my manager asked me: "Qingsong, why you can get good review result when you are in SDET II...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 03/09/2012
Recommend reading "Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business"
We used to think about we as tester are some kind of gatekeeper for the product, and we are quality...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 02/03/2012
The journal of becoming senior tester (6) - switch role or stay
was plan to write some suggestion for whether you should stay in your current role or switch to...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 02/03/2012
The journal of becoming senior tester (1) - The four paths of becoming to senior tester
I have been testing area for almost seven years, and I grow from SDET to SDET II and from SDET II to...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 02/03/2012
The journal of becoming senior tester (13) - Understand the product
I beleive as a senior tester, we should fully understand the product we are testing aginst. Knowing...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 02/03/2012
The journal of becoming senior tester (14) - conclusion
This is the end of my series of blogs of becoming senior testers. I hope you can learn some useful...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 02/03/2012
The journal of becoming senior tester (12) - Coding, Coding, Coding
Today, I like to discuss the single most important skill our testers should master in their career,...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 02/03/2012
How to build a great team
Today, I like to talk about managing a team. The secret of building a great feature is to build a...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 01/05/2012
The journal of becoming senior tester (8) - suggestions for test manager
Today, I like to write a blog about hiring testers. The main reader is our hire Manager. This blog...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 12/28/2011
The journal of becoming senior tester (11) - making big impact
Today, I like to talk about another topic of being a senior tester which is making big impact. One...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 12/28/2011
The journal of becoming senior tester (5) - becoming a domain expert
Today, I like to write one of the most important career path for our tester, which is becoming a...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 12/28/2011
The journal of becoming senior tester (9) - be passion and be always motivated
Sometime, people will feel boring about doing the similar thing every day. They start to lose...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 12/28/2011
The journal of becoming senior tester (10) - be open and be broad
Once you stay in one group for long time, you obtained very deep knowledge about the area and the...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 12/18/2011
Tester' Career Series
Hello, Guys I start to a series of blogs about how to grow senior tester. I named the blogs as the...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 12/18/2011
Avoid using varchar or char data type
Today, I like to put one suggestion for choosing the data type of string column. My recommendation...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 04/08/2011
Do not alter database collation in your server
Today, I like to provide one suggestion related to change database collation. In Alter Database...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 04/04/2011
Query on Float DataType may return inconsistent result
Let us try following T-SQL script on SQL Server: declare @a float...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 11/14/2009
Tertiary Collation and the performance impact on order clause
Today, One customer asked about collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AI with non unique nonclustered...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 11/14/2009
How to make Like Case Sensitive?
Today, I got a question from customer: I have one column (Type: nVarchar) in a table which has data...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 09/18/2009
Unicode References
In this article, I recommend several Unicode articles/websites for reference. Note, the list is not...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 05/20/2009
Recommended presentation "The future of testing"
I like to share a talk by James Whittaker, Software Architecture at Microsoft. The talk name is "The...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 04/12/2009
Beta version of collation selecting tool availiable
Hello, Guys Please the attached zip file for the SQL Server collation selection tool. It is written...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 04/10/2009
Testing DBMS system: what should be the language?
Yesterday, I had chat with a colleague about testing database system. He raised a ery interesting...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 04/10/2009
SQL Server and UTF-8 Encoding (1) -True or False
Today, I will start my series of articles about SQL Server and Unicode UTF-8 Encoding. In many...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 04/10/2009
What I was doing these days?
In recent days, I am mainly reading test books since I am a Tester, and I need to know more about...
Author: QingsongYao Date: 04/07/2009