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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...

Author: Windows Live Tester Date: 03/05/2012

Service Upgrade Testing

To bring the windows live experience to life, we host a variety of interconnected services. These...

Author: Windows Live Tester 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...

Author: Windows Live Tester Date: 12/13/2011

Creativity in Testing

One of the wonderful parts of testing software is that beyond the pure technical aspects of the...

Author: Windows Live Tester Date: 12/07/2011

Testing In Production

One of the most useful resources for a test engineer dealing with web services is the production...

Author: Windows Live Tester Date: 11/28/2011

Object Model Design

Recently I was asked my opinion on creating object models for automated UI software testing –...

Author: Windows Live Tester Date: 11/14/2011

Playback Testing Using Log files

Author Vijay Upadya, vijayu@microsoft.com Abstract Most testers are familiar with record/playback...

Author: Windows Live Tester 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...

Author: Windows Live Tester 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...

Author: Windows Live Tester 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...

Author: Windows Live Tester Date: 10/04/2011

Hello world!

We are the senior SDETs (Software Engineer in Test) at Windows Live in Microsoft. We plan to use...

Author: Windows Live Tester Date: 09/13/2011