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Kayaking on Field Pond, Andover MA

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2:40 AM, September 12, 2011 .. Posted in Life .. Link

 

Field Pond, Andover MA

 

Recently, we took the Kayaks out to Field Pond in Andover, for a nice day of paddling.

 

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QA Is Not A Verb

Posted by jstrazzere
2:00 AM, September 9, 2011 .. Posted in QA .. Link

QA

 

qual·i·ty as·sur·ance

Noun: The maintenance of a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery or production.

 

 

QA is not a verb.  QA stands for Quality Assurance.

So when you say "can you please QA this build", you are asking "can you please Quality Assurance this build?"  That's probably not what you meant.

 

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/08/qa-is-not-verb.html



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Kindle Cloud Reader

Posted by jstrazzere
9:29 PM, August 28, 2011 .. Posted in Life .. Link

 

Kindle Cloud Reader

 

Amazon recently released a new Kindle "feature", the Kindle Cloud Reader.

  • Read your e-books in your browser
  • You can access all of your Amazon-hosted e-books, or you can download them locally for offline reading
  • Currently works only in Chrome and Safari
    Simple, clean interface
  • Can view your entire e-book library at a glance
  • Allows you to keep your last-page-read indication "in the Cloud" so you can start reading on one device, and pick up right where you left off on another device

Read more at:

http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/08/kindle-cloud-reader.html

 


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Earthquake - Did Anyone Else Feel It?

Posted by jstrazzere
9:05 AM, August 24, 2011 .. Posted in Life .. Link

 

It wasn't all that bad

 

Yesterday, I was in a meeting, and felt something unusual. It felt like the room was moving a bit side-to-side - nothing really bad, but noticeable. I looked around and didn't see anyone react, so I thought it was just me.

 

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/08/did-you-feel-that.html


 


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People Are Not Fungible!

Posted by jstrazzere
9:11 AM, August 23, 2011 .. Posted in QA .. Link

 

 

 

FUN·GI·BLE

 [fuhn-juh-buhl]
adjective Law.(especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
Origin: 

1755–65; Medieval Latin fungibilis,  equivalent to Latin fung ( ī )to perform the office of + -ibilis 


 


Money is fungible. One bill can be freely exchanged for another. Gasoline is basically fungible. You can fill your car up at one station or another without worrying that you are putting something different in your gas tank.

But people are not fungible!

 

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Summer Vacation 2011

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2:03 AM, August 22, 2011 .. Posted in Life .. Link

 

 

My wife and I took our annual vacation in York Beach, Maine a little while ago. As usual, we had a great time.

 

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Kim and Matt's Wedding

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2:59 AM, August 19, 2011 .. Posted in Life .. Link

 

Matt and Kim at Nubble Light, Maine 

 

 

My older son Matt got married a few weeks ago.  It was one of the happiest weekends of my life.

 

Matt and his new bride Kim love the beach and the ocean, so they wanted a site with both for their wedding.  They chose York Beach, Maine and were married outdoors.  It was wonderful.

 

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Kayaking on Nutting Lake, Billerica

Posted by jstrazzere
9:13 AM, August 17, 2011 .. Posted in Life .. Link

 

Nutting Lake, Billerica

 

A few weeks ago we were able to kayak in a new location - Nutting Lake in Billerica. It was a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning.  The lake was calm, and just a few folks were out fishing or paddling their canoes.

 

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Annoying Office Issues

Posted by jstrazzere
9:06 AM, August 16, 2011 .. Posted in Work in General .. Link

 

shh!

 

My office shares a common wall with a small conference room.

Until recently, this wasn't a big problem, as the conference room was used only sparingly and often by me. 
 
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Five Years

Posted by jstrazzere
9:25 AM, August 15, 2011 .. Posted in Work in General .. Link

 

 

I've been at my current company for five years now.

 

It's hard for me to believe that I've been here five years already. Yet when I look back at all we've accomplished, it sometimes seems like more.

 

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Own a Kindle? Visit These Sites!

Posted by jstrazzere
4:01 PM, June 6, 2011 .. Posted in Life .. Link

 

 

If you own a Kindle (or even if you just use the Kindle app on some other device), you owe it to yourself to check out these web sites.

 

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/own-kindle-visit-these-sites.html



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Testing Terms Have Their Own Page

Posted by jstrazzere
2:14 AM, June 3, 2011 .. Posted in QA .. Link

 

 

Recently, I moved my Glossary of Testing Terms to its own page:


It has pretty consistently been the most-used page on this blog, so I felt that it deserved a prominent place of its own.



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Code Freeze

Posted by jstrazzere
4:00 AM, June 2, 2011 .. Posted in QA .. Link

 

 

 

Yet I'm still waiting for Code Freeze...

 

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/code-freeze.html


 


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A new Kindle Game - Thread Words

Posted by jstrazzere
2:39 AM, June 1, 2011 .. Posted in Life .. Link

 

 

Amazon released yet another new (free) game for the Kindle - Thread Words.

Thread Words is a word search game for Kindle.


Your goal is to find words in a 5 high grid of letters. Find words by selecting one letter from each column. On each level there are ten pairs of shapes. Make words matching each shape on the left with the same shape on the right to unlock the next level. After matching all shapes you can continue to find the rest of the words for a higher score or immediately move on to the next level.


The game progresses through 4 levels of difficulty, with grids that increase from 4 to 7 letters across. Each word you find is worth 20 points per letter, and if you find all of the qualifying words you get an 800 point bonus! Try to beat the clock or take your time in relaxed mode. The game tracks separate high scores for each mode.

Read more about it at:

http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-kindle-game-thread-words.html


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Sing A Song Of Quality

Posted by jstrazzere
2:30 AM, May 31, 2011 .. Posted in QA .. Link

 

 

I was looking for some music related to Testing or QA to use in a presentation.  The pickings are slim, but I found these.

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/songs-about-testing-qa.html


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WinTask DbSelect(), DbGetFieldString(), DbGetFieldNumeric()

Posted by jstrazzere
7:07 AM, May 27, 2011 .. Posted in WinTask .. Link

 

 

 

WinTask uses the DbSelect() function to query the database and create a result set, and the DbGetFieldString() to retrieve values from that result set.

 

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/wintask-dbselect-dbgetfieldstring.html


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Amazon AdMash - Crowdsourced A/B Testing on the Kindle

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4:57 PM, May 25, 2011 .. Posted in QA .. Link

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004WFYIMA/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title

 

 

 

Recently, Amazon released a new Kindle Game/Thing with Active Content called AdMash.

 

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/amazon-admash-crowdsourced-ab-testing.html


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Free Kindle Games

Posted by jstrazzere
2:13 AM, May 25, 2011 .. Posted in Life .. Link

 


 

The Kindle, with its e-ink black-and-white display and limited processing power, isn't ideally suited to be a gaming platform.  But that's fine, since I'm not much of a gamer.

 

Still, simple games can be a nice diversion on occasion.  And if they are free, why not?  So when a free Kindle game becomes available, I download it.  And occasionally I play it.

 

See the games I have so far at:

http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/free-kindle-games.html

 



Exploratory Testing

Posted by jstrazzere
9:16 AM, May 24, 2011 .. Posted in QA .. Link

Hmm.  So will the world actually end in 2012?

 

Let's do a little exploratory testing...

 

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/exploratory-testing.html



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Testing Is

Posted by jstrazzere
3:50 PM, May 23, 2011 .. Posted in QA .. Link

 

 

According to Google (and Google knows everything), testing is...
  • Testing is easy
  • Testing is boring
  • Testing is fun


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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/05/testing-is.html


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