OneNote Testing
What it is like to be a tester on the Microsoft OneNote team and day to day life as an SDET in Office. Plus a few tips for using OneNote and an occasional powertoy.
Rock and Roll!
4 testers from the OneNote team participated in the Rock and Roll half marathon here in Seattle last...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/27/2011
Two different approaches to testing a server
I had a discussion yesterday with a tester on the team about predicting and measuring server...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/23/2011
Duct tape, twitter, keyboards and OneNote
Long time readers will know I keep a live twitter feed, filtered on OneNote, displayed for everyone...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/20/2011
An intern comes by to talk about OneNote
I was sitting in my office today and noticed a fellow in the hallway looking at the Twitter feed I...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/16/2011
Tip: Disabling spell check underlining in the OneNote Web Client
Steve Hollasch has been at it again. He figured out a way to "disable" spell check in the OneNote...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/13/2011
A tip for working with outlines in OneNote
I was digging through OneNote this week looking to increase test coverage for OneNote automation...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/09/2011
It Came From PCR!
How's that for a nice little homage to 1950s horror movies? "PCR" is an acronym we have...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/06/2011
OneNote tip: Jumping to Frequently Used Pages
Steve Hollasch is an avid OneNote user here at Microsoft and, with Dan's help, came up with a pretty...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/02/2011
Getting to the OneNote API with Python
Just when I thought I might get bored on a three day weekend (here in the USA, it is Memorial Day...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/27/2011
Back to working efficiently
A quick recap - I had been intentionally performing a lot of testing work manually in order to track...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/26/2011
Working inefficiently in the test team
I've spent the last two weeks being very inefficient. Obviously, I had a reason for this and it goes...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/19/2011
Tip: Synonyms in OneNote
An email came through my inbox recently wanting to know how to get synonyms working in OneNote. The...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/16/2011
If it could have gone wrong…
We're getting a new tester next week and one of the things I need to do before she starts is get her...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/12/2011
One of the problems with hard coded strings
Just about a year ago, I wrote about a problem our automation scripts had with hard coded strings....
Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/09/2011
OneNote Printer Troubleshooting Tips
I've been working quite a bit recently on the OneNote Printer. I had a bug reported with my...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/05/2011
Source Code for the updated Table Powertoy for OneNote
Just a short note today. Below my signature is the download file for the updates Brad Covell made...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/02/2011
Updated: The OneNote Table of Contents and Sorter Powertoy
Brad Covell took a look at the OneNote Table of Contents and Table Sorter powertoy and realized that...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/28/2011
It happens to us all
I often use car analogies to describe software testing. Another case for this happened to me today,...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/25/2011
An email leads to a quick discussion on infinite page size in OneNote
I got an email from a fellow writing a OneNote addin that led to our page size being infinite. On...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/21/2011
Jumping the gun on a bug report
So the other day I power up my laptop in its docking station. This is my dogfood machine and I was...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/18/2011
A nice OneNote project from Arizona State University
I was out earlier this week and missed this in email when it came in. But it's still really...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/14/2011
A tip to get a column of data from a OneNote table
Here's a neat trick I found to quickly use the mouse to get a column of data out of a OneNote table....
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/07/2011
Updating another automation test to increase stability
To make a long story short, I have a test that checks to ensure PNG files are created in the local...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/04/2011
OneNote Onesies
We had reason to give out two of these today to a couple of people that will have needs for these in...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/31/2011
A stylus blew up
I've had (more than?) my fair share of hardware problems, but this one is new. One of the testers on...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/28/2011
Some test planning is happening over the next few weeks
One of the major tasks our test team faces is creating test tools, automation and processes to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/25/2011
Taking a break from testing OneNote as we get to spring
Yesterday, Ricky and I took a short break from testing. We ran in the Mercer Island Half Marathon....
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/21/2011
I just got teased for using a pencil and paper instead of OneNote
I just got caught using a pencil and paper to write comments all over a document one of our program...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/17/2011
Getting hot in the OneNote hallway
One of the offices we had occupied is getting converted into 2 new offices. The construction work...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/14/2011
PCR: Saying goodbye to an old tablet
Machines often get replaced around here. Sometimes the old machines get reused - maybe it gets...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/10/2011
A treeview control for OneNote 2007
While cleaning out my email a short while ago, I found a tree view control for OneNote 2007 I had...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/07/2011
A silly hallway conversation reminds me about boundary cases
Dan Escapa, Gary and I were having a hallway conversation about some obscure thing and somehow the...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/03/2011
My printer automation is failing
I got a report that the OneNote printer automation test I own was not passing recently. I doubted...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/28/2011
Opening a OneNote page each day at the same time
Here's how to set OneNote to open a particular page at a certain time each day. This was asked in...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/23/2011
I just noticed this...
I have 5 notebooks I have shared with others on SkyDrive. What I just noticed was that the only real...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/21/2011
Final update for Code To OneNote
David Tinney updated the Code To OneNote addin for Visual Studio again. He streamlined the copy...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/17/2011
Tip for creating links to certain places on a OneNote page
A lawyer over on the social group had an interesting question over the weekend. Here it is: I.m a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/14/2011
Updated the image importer for OneNote 2010
Just a quick note that I updated the image importer to allow TIFF files to be imported. This was...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/10/2011
Language neutral automation
This is more fallout from me digging through my mailbox and deleting old emails. I found this from...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/07/2011
Frustrating automation investigations
So I have an automated test which checks our ability to insert PDF files into OneNote, and it fails,...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/03/2011
Looking at the code for the sort pages powertoy
There really is not a lot to this code. Ultimately, it reads the names of each page grouping into a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/31/2011
Excellent tutorial for creating ribbon based addins for OneNote
Malte Ahrens has created a super "how to" guide for creating addins that use ribbon controls for...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/27/2011
Updating the Page Sorter powertoy for OneNote 2010
Way back in 2007, Dan Escapa wrote a powertoy to alphabetize pages. He was good enough to send me...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/24/2011
An update to the CodeToOneNote Visual Studio addin
David has been busy adding to his CodeTo1Note addin. He sent me the update (below my signature...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/13/2011
Powertoys from the OneNote Test Team for 2010
Every January, I compile a list of the powertoys the test team gave out the previous year. This...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/10/2011
An Outlook routine to export sticky notes and then import them to OneNote
Bill was looking for a way to move his Outlook sticky notes to OneNote. Way back when, I wrote an...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/06/2011
Looking at the code for the image importer
Looking at the code for the image importer doesn't show many changes from the text importer. A few...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/04/2011
A tip to get a keyboard shortcut for the "Center Text"–command in OneNote 2010
This question bubbled up over on the social group: "What is the keyboard combination for...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/30/2010
A bulk image importer powertoy for OneNote 2010
"Vince" wrote to me a while back and asked if there was any way to update the text importer to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/20/2010
A nice letter from a teacher using OneNote
This email comes from a math teacher in BC, Canada. I asked his permission to post it, and he...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/16/2010