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Globalization Testing: Basic International Sufficiency

Thursday, June 3, 2010

I started my career at Microsoft in 1994 working on the Windows 95 International Test team. Globalization testing is a unique specialty in software testing just like performance, security, and other specific areas of testing. Globalization testing doesn’t necessarily require a tester to be bi-lingual, or be from a country other than the United States. [...]

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A Different Perspective on Random Name Generation

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Saturday, August 15, 2009
My daughter made me laugh today when she offered a bit of her philosophy. She told me that her favorite candy is gummy bears “because gummy bears get stuck between your teeth, and then you can dig out a second helping with your tongue.” I never really thought of [...]

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Testing is Sampling

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Thursday, July 16, 2009
It seems it is about this time of year that I need to detach a bit from the world to reflect back on the past year and reevaluate my personal and professional goals moving forward. Perhaps I am just getting older or perhaps just a bit wiser (that is synonymous [...]

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Troubleshooting Test Data with String Decoder

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Wednesday, February 25, 2009
I value static test data that is derived from historical failure indicators, or representative of typical end-users. But, of course a problem with static test data is that it only provides a limited set of all possible data, and becomes stale or provides little new information after multiple iterations [...]

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Random String Generation…Update!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Tuesday, February 17, 2009
One of the biggest challenges in input testing is the sheer amount of potential characters and the virtually infinite number of permutations of those characters in different character positions in a string. Even if we know about the myriad of language scripts used throughout the world, manually generating characters from [...]

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Babel – A ‘New’ Random Unicode String Generator Test Tool

Friday, November 13, 2009

Originally Published Thursday, September 20, 2007
For some time I have wanted to add surrogate pair character support to a tool I developed called GString, and this week I managed to find some time to do that work and more! As I developed the methods for surrogate pair support I rewrote (refactored in developer parlance) some [...]

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Regression Testing Strategies

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Originally Published Wednesday, January 10, 2007
There is a lot written about regression testing, and yet there seems to be a lot of confusion about regression testing as well. Just to make sure we are all on the same page, by regression I am referring to the denotation of the word to indicate a relapse to [...]

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