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Overcoming UI Automation Challenges
UI automation isn’t an easy task, as any UI feature test owner who is responsible for automating...
Date: 03/05/2012
Service Upgrade Testing
To bring the windows live experience to life, we host a variety of interconnected services. These...
Date: 01/05/2012
Just because you can test it doesn’t mean you should
A wise test lead once said to me, “do as little as possible while still ensuring...
Date: 12/13/2011
Creativity in Testing
One of the wonderful parts of testing software is that beyond the pure technical aspects of the...
Date: 12/07/2011
Testing In Production
One of the most useful resources for a test engineer dealing with web services is the production...
Date: 11/28/2011
Object Model Design
Recently I was asked my opinion on creating object models for automated UI software testing –...
Date: 11/14/2011
Playback Testing Using Log files
Author Vijay Upadya, vijayu@microsoft.com Abstract Most testers are familiar with record/playback...
Date: 11/07/2011
Old World vs. New World
As software has become increasingly more complex and the demands placed on the test discipline have...
Date: 10/31/2011
Code Inspection for SDETs, Part II
In part I of this series, we looked at some of the benefits of the SDET discipline being fully...
Date: 10/24/2011
Code Inspection for SDETs, part I
(Note for those unfamiliar with the acronym, SDET stands for Software Design Engineer in Test. In...
Date: 10/04/2011
Hello world!
We are the senior SDETs (Software Engineer in Test) at Windows Live in Microsoft. We plan to use...
Date: 09/13/2011