A QA Guy's Radio WeblogThoughts from Dave Liebreich(Untitled)- August 28, 2002 Writer's Tip When writing for a publication, don't write for the other authors. I've discouraged myself many times from writing an article because I felt the other authors already knew the topic, maybe better than I did. Now I think of how I would explain the issue to someone in a different field.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100102/2002/08/27.html#a217 (Untitled)- August 27, 2002 Jury Duty I've been called for jury duty this week, so posts and work are on hold. Posts, of course, won't notice the difference :-)http://radio.weblogs.com/0100102/2002/08/26.html#a216 (Untitled)- August 25, 2002 UI Test Automation Under Windows Today I started working on an MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility)-based .NET component to drive Windows UI with the aim of using it to do automated testing (among other things). After playing around with a few different approches I have settled on this one: ... It turns out that the needs of people making accessibility aids and the needs of people trying to implement automated testing tools are quite similar so this technology can be used to implement...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100102/2002/08/25.html#a215 (Untitled)- August 16, 2002 A Great Image What do you call it when you take a fundamentally weak andor unstable architecture, and shore it up to fix each flaw (aka bug) that is discovered Where some of the fixes push the core over in other areas, creating new bugs Jello, with scaffolding. :-)http://radio.weblogs.com/0100102/2002/08/16.html#a214 (Untitled)- August 14, 2002 A Book My wife says I should write a book about my experiences leading test groups. The title she suggested "Improvisational Management" Gotta love her.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100102/2002/08/13.html#a213 (Untitled)- August 9, 2002 Oh yeah Well, then I'll test THIS! Attended a handoff meeting today, where a project was formally moved from Research to Development. I asked for ongoing guidance on the target market, basically stating that I saw large areas of the problem space that would likely require major changes to the proposed solution architecture. You know, the whole "find the really really ugly bugs as early as possible" thing. These, um, er, uh, "trade-offs" in architecture design would be acceptible if we are..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100102/2002/08/08.html#a212 (Untitled)- August 6, 2002 Box What box Today, a co-worker complemented my group for creative testing and finding important but not-necessarily obvious bugs in a recent release candidate. He said that they really "thought outside of the box." My reply "That's because I didn't give them one to start with." Working with a group of junior folks can be fun.http://radio.weblogs.com/0100102/2002/08/05.html#a211 |