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.
OneNote as a karaoke machine: no powertoy needed!
I was playing around with Jeff's media tuner addin the other day and trying to align some notes I...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/24/2008
Tracking too many interrupts with my tablet PC
I have been very happy with my tablet once I scanned my fingerprint to "calm down" the...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/21/2008
Living in the cache - the rest of the story
My big plan to "live in the cache" and automatically consolidate my offline changes when I got my...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/14/2008
Two new case studies on OneNote, and how they will affect testing
Last week Alceste mentioned, in a comment about using personas for testing, that the sample set we...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/10/2008
Welcome Ali Babaoğlan to the Shared Source OM team
I just got finished sending this email to the OM team on www.codeplex.com/onom. This is incredibly...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/08/2008
Triaging our "tools" bug list
Last week we took a look at bugs we have opened in the "Tools" branch of our bug database. For...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/07/2008
Testing themed controls for OneNote addins
About a week ago, Shu updated his OneNote Favorites addin to support themed controls. In short,...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/03/2008
Using case studies of OneNote to enhance our test planning
Over in the newsgroups a few days ago there was this post. In it, Dave asks about using OneNote in a...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/31/2008
A few Outlook tips
Since I was on Outlook for so many years, I have been asked many, many questions on it. I want to...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/27/2008
Top 5 OneNote tips, and a nice little win
A request I get face to face is "What is a way to get more out of OneNote?" I don't think I've ever...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/24/2008
Favorites powertoy for OneNote update, and developing a test matrix
Two things are happening. First, Shu responded to you and updated his Favorites addin. In his words,...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/20/2008
The 3 biggest "pain points" we are investigating
OneNote 2007 has been out for over a year, we've shipped our first service pack for it and have had...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/17/2008
Unwanted troubleshooting on a new tablet
Hewlett Packard updated their tx1000z tablet recently to a new model, the tx2000. The previous model...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/13/2008
Calendar templates for OneNote
I found another blog here which showcases templates for different applications in Office. It's...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/10/2008
Still "living in the OneNote cache"
Last week when my tablet died I lost the hard drive which held the most important notebook I use in...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/07/2008
A new OneNote Favorites Powertoy
Shu Chen, a tester working on OneNote, created an alternate Favorites addin for OneNote. It works...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 03/03/2008
A nice surprise and powertoy should be ready on Monday!
I don't want to tip my hand too much or over promise anything, but I have to say that if everything...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/28/2008
Grief with the Gateway
I got my Gateway to replace the Lenovo which had given me problems. The Gateway had been working...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/27/2008
Paper wins again
I received an email a week or so ago from Jeffrey and he made this comment: "I have TODO...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/25/2008
Some soon to be updated documentation for napkin math
I had an old machine give out on me earlier this week. The memory on it had started giving parity...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/21/2008
Automation tasks for the OneNote test team
Right now we have a little bit of spare "bandwidth" to complete some automation tasks which have...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/18/2008
Performance testing with OneNote continued
My last update was about indirect performance testing of OneNote when I was creating the Gutenberg...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/14/2008
Testing OneNote performance with huge amounts of text on a page
I was reading the newsgroups a few weeks ago and saw this question: "Will onenote run better if I...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 02/11/2008
Testing from home
One of the things we allow on the OneNote test team is working from home now and then. We have tried...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/31/2008
Using personas to help develop setup tests
Last week I wrote about two different types of testing. One was setup testing: the very time...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/28/2008
Using OneNote's customers as a basis for designing tests
One of the more easy to explain testing techniques we use at Microsoft to ensure our software meets...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/24/2008
Setup testing
Imagine a feature of Internet Explorer or some other browser which would automatically delete items...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/21/2008
OneNote Powertoys from the PM team, and a one question survey about them
A few astute readers pointed out I (intentionally) missed a few addins the OneNote team finished...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/18/2008
A summary of the OneNote powertoys from the test team for 2007
I was getting ready to post this list of the addins the OneNote Test Team worked on in the year 2007...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/17/2008
Comparing a tester to an "enthusiastic user"
Back in October, I made the statement that I had to transition from being an enthusiastic user of...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/10/2008
Tracking a bug with video and seeing it change into a tip for OneNote users
Gary Neitzke and I both discovered the same "bug" with OneNote last week. We both entered a bug with...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/07/2008
Using OneNote in the navy
One of the things I don't think I have mentioned is that in addition to testing here at Microsoft, I...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 01/03/2008
Money times money = ?
Over on the OneNote Discussion Group, there is a comment about Napkin Math and its order of...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/31/2007
Updating the easy way to debug addins
I received a few questions about my tip concerning a quicker way to troubleshoot addins during...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/27/2007
The obligatory end of the year summary from OneNote Testing
I've been in OneNote for just over a year now. Since the purpose of this blog is describing the day...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/26/2007
Journal to OneNote Importer
Lin Wang finished fine tuning the Windows Journal Importer tool and here it is. Just like it's name...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/21/2007
How to create a "floating" toolbar in OneNote
Gary Neitzke took a few minutes to create a draft of how to create a "floating toolbar" with your...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/20/2007
Some initial results from the "Week of OneNote Powertoys"
I've heard from quite a few people already via email and comments and seen indirectly some great...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/18/2007
Notebook cleaner and privatizer powertoy
People that publish shared notebooks in some environments have a couple of requests which need to be...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/15/2007
Image Rotator Powertoy for OneNote 2007
Image Rotation Tool Gary Neitzke decided to close a small functionality hole in...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/14/2007
Template Manager Powertoy for OneNote 2007
We're halfway through the "Week of OneNote Powertoys!" Remember: these addins...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/13/2007
Media Fine Tuner Powertoy for OneNote
For those of you who take notes while recording audio, Jeff Cardon has created a fine tuner...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/13/2007
Task Requests from OneNote Meeting Notes powertoy
The "Week of OneNote 2007 Powertoys" continues... One of the most frequent requests we hear for new...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/12/2007
Table Sum Powertoy for OneNote
As promised, here is the first of a week's worth of addins/powertoys for OneNote 2007. ...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/10/2007
A bug with the powertoy in development
We're polishing the tools I wrote about last time and getting ready to release them next week. The...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/06/2007
Powertoys in development
I dropped a few hints last week about what we (the test team) has been doing recently. And one other...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 12/03/2007
Sharepoint notebook problems and another hint
One bug report we've been trying to track down has to do with sections from Notebooks on Sharepoint...
Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/29/2007