After the discussion about passion and interviewing testers I started to rethink how I conduct interviews and I think that in the future I will use MS Paint as an application to see how candidates approach testing.A long time ago, I wrote my own little app for use during interviews. You can play with [...]

This morning I realized that last Friday I did something that seems very simple to me, but may not be for young people not used to DOC (or at least windows95). I run a bat file test.bat containing following lines:

:loop
copy test\*.* import\*.*
sleep 600
goto loop

The same documents get copied into import directory each 10 minutes (600 seconds=10minutes). I was testing server who is able to pick up files incoming into this folder. It is quite typical to have such services to automatically process faxed documents and email attachments. But you could replace copy command with your process execution call or anything.

I suffered for years without even knowing it. I sat there and worked and surfed and programmed... All with a cheesy clunky default plastic mouse. Finally, I upgraded all my mice to the Logitech MX620 Cordless Lazer Mouse. I can't believe the difference!

This new release of the unit testing framework for .NET includes: - Core library (xunit.dll) - Version-resilient runner support (xunit.runner.utility.dll) - Support for ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Support for CruiseControl.net (see the wiki for more information) - Installer utility for runners and ASP.NET MVC (xunit.installer.exe) - Six new runners - Extensions for .NET 2.0+ (xunitext.dll): - Extensions for .NET 3.5+ (xunitext35.dll)

I have a recommendation from an additional application tour from Cem Kaner. “Testers should be touring the market context as well as the product itself. For example, a lot of customer expectations are best discovered from regulations, competitive products, magazine articles or books about this class of product.”I like it.I’m trying to figure out a [...]