Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Tonight on my way to teach a test automation course at the University of Washington I had some free time to catch up on my reading. My manager asked me if I had read this month’s copy of one of the several testing magazines we get and I replied that I had downloaded it but [...]
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Some of you know that I am an organic gardener. I do this not only because I like the fresh taste of vegetables and fruits that are not tainted with chemicals, but my daughter loves to eat things right off the vine or stem as we are harvesting our bounty and I am perhaps overly [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Thursday, November 12, 2009
The past series of posts have focused on one of localization testing which describes the largest category of localization class issues reported by testers performing localization testing, and what we categorize as usability/behavioral type issues because they adversely impact the usability of the software or how end users interact with [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Part 1 provided an overview of localization class issues, and Part II discussed issues with non-translated strings in a localized product and gave some helpful hints to manage that problem during the software development lifecycle. In Part III I will cover various issues with access key mnemonics. An access key [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Friday, October 30, 2009
I should be of no surprise to anyone that localization testing generally focuses on changes in the user interface, although as mentioned in the previous post these are not the only changes necessary to adapt a product to a specific target market. But, the most common category of localization [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Tuesday, October 27, 2009
When I first joined Microsoft 15 years ago I was on the Windows 95 International team. Our team was responsible for reducing the delta between the release of the English version and the Japanese version to 90 days, and I am very proud to say that we achieved that goal [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Published Tuesday, October 20, 2009
I love autumn! Yes, I am definitely a boy of summer and very much prefer warmer weather; however, there is something special about autumn. This past weekend my daughter, and my 2 friends Dongyi and her husband Yuning and I participated in the Rum Run sailboat fun race with [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Sunday, October 11, 2009
A significant percentage of static test data is stored in tabular comma delimited or tab-delimited formats and saved in Excel spreadsheets. Reading in comma or tab-delimited static test data into an automated test is pretty straight forward and there are numerous examples in many programming languages illustrating how to [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Thursday, October 01, 2009
Software is knowledge. Software is the intangible product crafted by a team of people who have pooled their intellectual knowledge to help solve a complex problem and add value to those who use that software. So how does a tester contribute to the intellectual knowledge pool?
I guess we [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Originally Published Thursday, September 24, 2009
The past 2 weeks have been a bit rough. While in Israel I began to feel a bit congested. By the time I hit Nürmberg, Germany for 12th International Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology I was injecting nose-juice (nasal decongestant) about every 2-3 hours and couldn’t [...]