One of the great things about being Test Lead is all the paperwork associated with the position (can you sense my sarcasm?). I’ve spent most of the last week working on test plans and test schedules. Since I have never enjoyed paperwork this is especially painful. In creating a test plan I have really come [...]

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One of the greatest things about testing is posting bug reports. While I’m not a sadistic software bug witch hunter, I do enjoy finding a good bug. A few weeks ago one of the CORBA components in our system was turned over to me for testing. So, after looking over the specifications and the IDL [...]

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Personally, I find some ironic humor in this article, published by eWeek. The question posed by the author is “If Bill Gates showed up at the Microsoft employment office today, would he get a job?” Probably not. After all, he dropped out of college and doesn’t have the right sheepskin hanging on his wall. Generally, [...]

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I’m not sure if this is the intended behavior or not, but I found a “feature” in PyFIT that had me smashing the keyboard with my face. According to the PyFIT documentation you should be able to create a table like this: |TestClass| |InputString |OutputNum | |Hello World |>10 | |Python is cool!|1 < _ [...]

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