I work at a company that designs and builds network routers, so you can imagine that on occasion I need to create custom Ethernet packets for testing.  For hardcore traffic testing we’ve got some really expensive packet generator hardware that can send packets at full line rate.  For my tests I don’t need raw data [...]

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The title sounds somewhat like those spam messages I get.  But, this is a real software bug.  One I would consider serious.
Sometimes the most interesting bugs are discovered by pure accident.  I was picking up a few items at one of the United States major pharmacy chains and discovered a flaw in their software.  But [...]

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I am very fortunate indeed to work for a company that truly values test engineers. However, over the years I’ve seen some places that treat testers as second rate citizens. They are simply a check box on the software (or hardware) development cycle.
A couple years ago I had the privilege of listening to [...]

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Yesterday I was searching for a way to make GMail my default email provider, so that when I click on “mailto” links GMail opens.  In Windows this is pretty easy, but I couldn’t figure it out for Linux.  So, bring on Google search.  I found this web page which explains it succinctly.  While I don’t [...]

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