Note
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.
My new blog is at https://www.angryweasel.com/blog
James Whittaker on software testing
A channel 9 interview with James Whittaker is now available on channel9. You may know James from his...
Author: Alan Page Date: 05/05/2008
What is a test architect?
Matthew Heusser recently asked What is a software architect anyway? Matt when on to ask what a test...
Author: Alan Page Date: 05/01/2008
Does GQM Work?
I was typing a response to Matt on his blog to this post, when I realized two things. 1 - the...
Author: Alan Page Date: 04/18/2008
Testing and Quality
I’ve been thinking about testing and quality again lately. Across the industry, testers call...
Author: Alan Page Date: 04/10/2008
What is Quality?
How can such a simple question have so many answers. ISO has an answer, Crosby has an answer, Juran...
Author: Alan Page Date: 04/01/2008
Test automation?
It's not hard to find articles or blog postings on the web talking about when a test should or...
Author: Alan Page Date: 03/21/2008
Managing Relationships
Michael Feiner wrote a book called The Feiner Points of Leadership (get it?). The book has 50 laws,...
Author: Alan Page Date: 03/09/2008
Plane notes
I'm somewhere over the Rocky Mountains on my way back home from New York (via Atlanta...long story)....
Author: Alan Page Date: 03/01/2008
Technical Debt
Several years ago, I was on a product team in the midst of a ship cycle. I was part of the daily bug...
Author: Alan Page Date: 02/29/2008
Future Test notes
Futuretest wrapped up today. I thought my talk went well - it was a bit of a challenge for me to...
Author: Alan Page Date: 02/28/2008
Big Companies
When I started at Microsoft, I thought it was a pretty big company (near 15,000 employees...
Author: Alan Page Date: 02/25/2008
Off to New York
I'm in New York next week - first for Future Test, then off to Long Island to teach a quick class...
Author: Alan Page Date: 02/23/2008
Source control for testers - What Changed?
Other than the obvious uses (tracking changes in source code), there are a few uses for source...
Author: Alan Page Date: 02/18/2008
The power of the cloud
I finally got around to putting Vista on my laptop this week. My experience with Vista has been that...
Author: Alan Page Date: 02/06/2008
What are Universities for?
I found out a few weeks ago that my university would like me to represent alumni of my department...
Author: Alan Page Date: 02/01/2008
Testers are like...
I often compare debugging to detective work. You look at the clues, determine which are relevant and...
Author: Alan Page Date: 01/27/2008
preparing presentations
When I remember to blog, it's usually about whatever I'm working on, or something I am thinking...
Author: Alan Page Date: 01/21/2008
scripted?
The debate over scripted vs. exploratory testing continues (at least among the exploratory testers)....
Author: Alan Page Date: 01/16/2008
ZMB (zero mail bounce)
I suppose I can't talk about ZMB without first discussing ZBB. ZBB is Zero Bug Bounce - the moment...
Author: Alan Page Date: 01/11/2008
overload
I'm tired :}. Although I officially moved into a new position two months ago, work travel and...
Author: Alan Page Date: 01/09/2008
Vacation, all I ever wanted?
I took (and am taking) the final three weeks of 2007 off from work. Well, at least full time work....
Author: Alan Page Date: 12/27/2007
Some down time
I must not be a fan of "hitting the ground running." After taking on a new role within my current...
Author: Alan Page Date: 12/10/2007
More Whiteboard Videos
We just posted a few more videos on TesterCenter (also of note is updated content on the overall...
Author: Alan Page Date: 11/30/2007
Newsflash: misuse of quality metrics
I’ve seen a few posts recently on bad software metrics. What I find interesting is that the points...
Author: Alan Page Date: 11/24/2007
Oracles are hard...
In a previous post, I mentioned that when writing automated tests, the grey area between pass and...
Author: Alan Page Date: 11/23/2007
Software quality at 10,000 feet
I'm returning home from India. I talked, I taught, and I discussed software testing with a lot of...
Author: Alan Page Date: 11/18/2007
Pass, Fail...and other
In a perfect world, tests either pass or fail (ok - in a really perfect world, they would all pass)....
Author: Alan Page Date: 11/07/2007
Mixed Emotions
Almost every time somebody changes groups at Microsoft, there's some sort of "send-off" email. 98%...
Author: Alan Page Date: 11/01/2007
To cleanup or not to cleanup
One attribute typically considered important for automated test cases (or almost any other test case...
Author: Alan Page Date: 10/28/2007
Goodbye Fargo
I'm heading back to Redmond for a week before traveling to India. Meeting testers outside of Redmond...
Author: Alan Page Date: 10/26/2007
Do I know anything about testing?
Well, if you took a look at the whiteboard video series on the tester center, you wouldn't think so....
Author: Alan Page Date: 10/23/2007
At long last...
Several months ago, I announced that MSDN now had forums set up for discussing software testing...
Author: Alan Page Date: 10/22/2007
Time for travel
It's time for me to start accumulating some frequent flier miles. I'm off to Fargo ND, from October...
Author: Alan Page Date: 10/16/2007
Thinking and testing
I realized that my last few posts have not really been about testing, but have been more about...
Author: Alan Page Date: 10/11/2007
Rewards
A large part of my job can be summed up as "improving people" - either through individual mentoring,...
Author: Alan Page Date: 10/09/2007
Priorities - part 3
I think perhaps the only thing worse than a three-part post is a three-part post with a week between...
Author: Alan Page Date: 09/30/2007
Critical, harsh, and other things people call me
I am often asked for feedback. Sometimes the request is direct, as in "please give me your feedback...
Author: Alan Page Date: 09/17/2007
The best book on software testing
I remember the first time I read a book about testing. It was pretty eye-opening, and I remember it...
Author: Alan Page Date: 09/10/2007
Staying sharp
One of my favorite books on the approach to software development is The Pragmatic Programmer. I...
Author: Alan Page Date: 09/02/2007
Test Talks
Adam asked me to elaborate a bit on the test talk series that I host and coordinate for Microsoft....
Author: Alan Page Date: 08/20/2007
About me
No, I am not the was-a-Minnesota Viking is-a-Minnesota Supreme Court judge! I am currently a Test...
Author: Alan Page Date: 08/17/2007
Mentoring testers
I have a few follow ups to my last post. Adam Goucher, who incidentally has a great blog of his own)...
Author: Alan Page Date: 08/17/2007
A day in the life
We have an opening on our team, and because of this, I've been spending a bit of time talking to...
Author: Alan Page Date: 08/15/2007