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So, 2011 was a busy year working with SharePoint.  We did a major site upgrade where the old public site running on IIS was moved over to SharePoint, that was a major effort and took a lot of coordination with a lot of people.  It came off really well, and has been successful since not many people noticed the underlying change, only the new look of the site.  To me, that is a major success.

In addition I went through the task of learning SharePoint, as well as it's Search functionality, we had it going well for awhile then things just stopped.  We still have no idea why, but it's been slightly educational in learning how things work.  A nice environment where people just jump into things, help out where needed, and take the time to learn.  That's what makes this job great.

Testing was a big focus, not only because we added a new person to help test last year, though she moved on it was good to sort of settle things and document much more.  Teaching is always interesting since everyone comes in with a different focus and idea, that helps me readjust my thinking when I start to train someone.  From that I have more wiki pages, more places to document what we have been doing and more documentation on just everything.  I also got a start on automated testing, I now have a Framework with SpecFlow where I am now using BDD to create automated cases for Functional and Acceptance testing.  First time the Acceptance Test was used after a deploy we found an error, that is success to me.

I needed to add goals for the year, which I am bad at, for myself I have overall goals but they get subsumed by whatever is going on at work at the time.  Priorities come up and I need to learn something, say about writing a PowerShell script here or there, always something new.  Though I think I am better now at focusing more on what I need to do and I will be going through that as a task for 2012.  Should be an interesting year and I hope to do better about recording things here as well.

Fisker Automotive is recalling their electric "Karma" sedan due to bugs in the software controls.

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Everyone wants to feel special!

Special Offers are advertisements displayed on your Kindle. You can purchase a subsidized version of a Kindle at a discount if you are willing to accept these Special Offers. But at first you couldn't view these offers on a non-subsidized version (like my Kindle Keyboard 3G). Now you can.

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How can you find Quality? 

As part of my review of All Things Quality for 2011, here were the top ten search terms folks used when they ended up on this blog...

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http://www.allthingsquality.com/2012/01/top-ten-search-terms-in-2011.html

Benvenuto!

As part of my review of All Things Quality for 2011, here were the top ten countries with the most visits to All Things Quality, according to Google Analytics...

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You're the top!
You're the Coliseum.
You're the top!
You're the Louvre Museum.

Aside from my home page, these were the top ten content pages for 2011.  They received the most visits according to Google Analytics...

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Perhaps they should have tested more in 2011? 

2011 saw more "interesting" bugs show up in the news.  Perhaps these companies should have tested more?

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http://www.allthingsquality.com/2012/01/perhaps-they-should-have-tested-more-in.html

The good people over at SQAForums.com are giving stuff away!  Yes, stuff for free!

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http://www.allthingsquality.com/2011/12/get-some-sqaforums-swag-in-2012.html

A Mango Oh-Oh! 

A recent flaw in Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 allows certain SMS messages to cause the phone to reboot and come back up with the messaging hub disabled.

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What are the Requirements? 

According to Google (and Google knows everything), requirements are ...

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Top 5 Books about QA and Testing 

A while back, I posted a list of Testing and QA books I have on my bookshelf. http://www.allthingsquality.com/2011/11/my-testers-bookshelf.html

A few folks commented that the list was good, but too long.  They wanted to know a short list of books I would recommend.  It's tough, because there are so many good ones worth reading. But for those who want to start with just a few, here goes. In no particular order:

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It's fun at the Circus!

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Practice, Practice, Practice...

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While I've been reading a lot using my Kindle in the past year, most of my technical books are still of the paper variety.

Here are some of the books I currently have in my bookcase that are either directly related to Testing, QA, or Technical Management, or have influenced my life as a Software Professional:

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How are things?

One of the challenges for a busy manager with a team of busy testers working on multiple projects is keeping in touch, knowing what's going on, where help is needed, how to unblock obstacles. It's difficult (for me at least), and takes some work, but it's well worth it.

Here are some of the things that I do...

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http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2011/11/how-do-you-keep-in-synch-with-your-test.html