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Perhaps Romney's Project Orca Team Should Have Tested More?

Perhaps the Project Orca team should have tested more?

Described as a "Killer Whale Project", a system designed to help volunteers record who voted, and to identify those who hadn�t for follow-up, apparently failed miserably. copyrightjoestrazzere

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I'm an Expert?

From One Expert to Another: Joe Strazzere

Stickyminds.com, the online companion to Better Software magazine, runs a series of articles titled "From One Expert to Another".

These articles use an interview format where one QA/Testing expert questions another. copyrightjoestrazzere

Past editions have interviewed such industry notables as Markus G�rtner, Alan Page, Paul Poutane, Dawn and Shannon Code, Meeta Prakash, Simon Baker, Catherine Powell, and James Bach.

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I'm Voting For SQAForums - How About You?

Vote for SQAForums.com

Once again the Automated Testing Institute is conducting their annual "Automation Honors" voting. From their website: copyrightjoestrazzere

The industry's original set of awards dedicated to software test automation is again looking to crown industry leading tools, resources and practitioners with automation's top honor. That means it's time for all of you to get busy!

The ATI Automation Honors awards rely on industry practitioners to identify which tools, resources and people are the best, which have the most significant upgrades and/or which are setting the trends that will help to take software test automation to the next level in the coming year. The 4th Annual Awards promise to be even bigger and better with more categories, more trend analysis, a live ceremony at the TestKIT 2012 Conference, video presentation ceremony, and much more.

In the category of "Best Automated Testing Forum" my vote again goes to SQAForums.com.

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A Testing Song

To the tune of "There's a hole in the bottom of the sea"

There's a bug and it's been assigned to me

There's a bug, there's a bug, there's a bug and it's been assigned to me copyrightjoestrazzere

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Remembering September 11, 2001

Anna Williams Allison

Eleven years later, I remember September 11, 2001.

I remember being in a morning meeting and one of the staff members was late. When he came in, he asked if we had heard the news about a plane crashing into the World Trade Center. We hadn't. We finished our meeting, then went upstairs to the lunch room (with its huge projection television) and saw that the news channels still weren't sure if this was an accident or some sort of attack.

Shortly after that, we watched in horror as another plan crashed into the second tower. Then it was clear that this was no accident.

A very sad, unsettling day.

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Perhaps They Should Have Tested More - Knight Capital

Perhaps Knight Capital Should Have Tested More

Last Wednesday, Knight Capital rolled out a change to its trading software. It contained bugs that caused unauthorized offers to buy and sell shares. Knight had to sell stocks that it accidentally bought - causing a $440 million loss. They considered filing for bankruptcy, but eventually settled on a painful rescue plan.copyrightjoestrazzere

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Papa Strazzere Here

Nana, Papa, and Kate

I haven't been blogging much lately. Work, and our vacation home in Maine, have taken up much of my free time.

Oh, and one other small thing has taken up some time - the birth of our first grandchild Katherine Rose! Our oldest son Matt, and his lovely wife Kim are now parents. And that means my wife and I are now Nana and Papa! copyrightjoestrazzere

Read more at:

http://www.allthingsquality.com/2012/07/now-we-are-nana-and-papa_19.html

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Mitt Romney's Amercia

Amercia

Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican nominee for President of The United States of America. His campaign recently released a new iPhone app, which misspelled a rather significant word. copyrightjoestrazzere

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Testing The Dress Code

That used to be me, on the bottom-left, except on Fridays, and with less hair.

Then one week on the top-middle.

Now top-middle for the whole summer!

If I pay even more can I be the top-left?

Yet another Dress Code innovation at my company was announced this week.

First we had Casual Fridays.
Then we had Dress Down for Charity Weeks.
Now we have "Casual Summer".

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Don't Become a Software Tester!

Stay out!

Over the years, I've heard from a lot of folks that would "like to get into software testing". Usually, I encourage people, tell them what a great profession this is, and help them any way I can.

But sometimes, I sense either directly or indirectly that this is just an interim thing - that it's a stepping stone "because it's easier than being a developer" or "because there are a lot of easy-to-land jobs" or such. For some reason, I've been seeing a lot of that lately. And when it comes to my chosen profession, I'm tired of hearing that! copyrightjoestrazzere

If you don't want to work hard - stay out.
If you don't want to learn continuously for your entire career - stay out.
If you are looking for something simple and easy - stay out.

We don't need you!

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Perhaps They Should Have Tested More - Nasdaq

How do you "Like" me now?

Perhaps you heard about the little company called Facebook that went public last week? I hear that they made a lot of money (at least for early investors and option holders) in the process.

But things didn't go smoothly at Nasdaq during the IPO: copyrightjoestrazzere

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New Maniacs!

Our new vacation home in Cape Neddick, Maine

I haven't written much recently. Pretty much all of my free time has been taken up completing the selection and purchase of a vacation home in Cape Neddick, Maine.

My wife and I have been vacationing in York, Maine on and off for around 20 years. We had always imagined what it would be like to own a place near the beach, but with our busy lives, the time was never right. This year, it was finally right. We have been very busy the past few months searching, finding, funding, purchasing, and moving. copyrightjoestrazzere

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Updated Nursery Rhymes for Testers

Nursery Rhymes for Testers

Inspired by Anne-Marie Charrett at http://mavericktester.com/archive/mary-mary-quite-contrary , here are some updated Nursery Rhymes for Testers.

London Bridge is falling down,

Falling down, falling down,

London Bridge is falling down,

But it works on my machine. copyrightjoestrazzere

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Google Says That Failure Is ...

pollice verso

According to Google (and Google knows everything), failure is: copyrightjoestrazzere

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Don't Fake Your Results!

Of course the six years I blow off my test results, this happens

Hundreds, or even thousands, of drunk driving convictions could be overturned because the San Francisco Police Department had not properly tested its breathalyzers recently

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Want to try your hand at Beta Testing?

Be better - be a Beta!

A while back I posted about being a Beta Tester

http://strazzere.blogspot.com/2010/05/so-you-want-to-be-beta-tester.html

Beta testing can be a nice way to enhance your skills as a tester, and perhaps add to your resume.

Here are a few more opportunities. As always, be careful out there in Beta land.

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Perhaps Microsoft Should Have Tested Windows Azure More?

So we know it's Leap Day, but what time is it?

On Wednesday, February 29th, Windows Azure experienced about 8 hours of downtime for some of its critical services. The cause? Leap Day. copyrightjoestrazzere

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Have You Ever Taken The Crappy Path?

Take The Crappy Path

Wikipedia defines the Happy Path as "a default scenario that features no exceptional or error conditions, and comprises the sequence of activities that will be executed if everything goes as expected."

Alan Page calls it "Simple inputs that should always work."

But as a professional tester, you should consider the Crappy Path.

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Perhaps The Russian Space Agency Should Have Tested More?

Not actually the Russian Mars Probe

The Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt launched on November 9th, 2011, was working immediately after launch. But a command to start the engines wasn't successful. Instead, the spacecraft went into "safe mode" and was trapped in orbit until it splashed into the ocean two months later. copyrightjoestrazzere

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How will the NFL's 2011 Season End?

Patriots preseason rainbow - a pot of gold at the end of the playoffs?

With Super Bowl XLVI fast approaching, I thought it would be interesting to look back on the predictions some sports writers made before the season started.

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