Some interesting Spec Explorer videos from Channel9. It is all you need to get started with Model Based Testing. The idea behind spec explorer is to make a model of the requirements of your products and let Spec Explorer generate millions of interesting test cases. You just need to find enough CPU power to run… Read More »
I will soon celebrate my three years anniversary as a professional software engineer in test. After three years, I still feel like I am missing some formal “education” on software testing. Despite owning a Master degree in Information Systems and Communication and having spent 5 years at University I never had any introduction to software… Read More »
There have been quite a lot going on in my life the past months, following the timeline of the events: Most importantly, my wife gave birth to a healthy and beautiful son, named Baptiste. He is already quite tall and is wearing 3 month cloth after only 1 month of life :). Few weeks before,… Read More »
.Net offers multiple ways to manage impersonation and its level. The important point to understand is what is being impersonated: the thread or the process also is the impersonation happening on the process or is it happening only on the network. Below classes will show you how to impersonate in all this cases. First class:… Read More »
As a tester, quality is what matter most to me. Interestingly, quality is pretty much the hardest thing to evaluate. One way, which I find useful, is to aggregate the metrics from multiple aspects of quality to have an overall view. Some important aspects of quality: Reliability Functionality Usability Efficiency Maintainability Portability Learnability Analyzability Testability… Read More »
With the new TaskFactory class from .Net 4.0 it has become incredibly easy to manage dependencies between multiple tasks. In below code sample, the TaskFactory receive 6 tasks to execute. Additional logic is added as: – Task A will only be run when Task B and C are completed. – Task C will only be… Read More »
Since I moved to Zurich, two years ago, I sadly did not have the time to see most of my friends I have in Geneva. This post will hopefully explain you what I am doing in Zurich as an Engineer in Test at Microsoft. I know that even the people who know me well do… Read More »
Interesting video (from Channel 9) showing a preview of the winPhone 7 OS. I am just a bit worried about the localized version of Bing. So far I have seen it working in the US. Does that mean that Bing will be updated for a worldwide support or that the winPhone7 will be available only… Read More »
After playing with Pivot, I have been really existed by the possibilities that Pivot offers. “Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun.” Simply speaking, Pivot is a tool that helps us visually browse collections of information. Figure 1: Item view in Pivot while… Read More »
This mobile personal assistant looks awesome! Unfortunately, for business model reason (the application is free and make money on referrals fees whenever someone buy through the service), the service works only in the US… Interesting interview to watch with the Siri CEO and VP engineering. Still is a great application to have on your pocket… Read More »
For developers the quality of a program can be often express in the time used to finish the computation. With current multicore processor we have to move our thinking from a serial execution to a concurrent execution. Using delegates in an asynchronous way can force the CLR to allocate multiple threads to your computation. In… Read More »
This is my first post of, I hope, a series related to WPF and C#. The examples below are made with VS (Visual Studio) 2010 and .Net 4.0, for this precise example you can make it work with .Net 3.5 at least. During the life of an application we can listen for some important… Read More »
Search engine are not doing search anymore… No search is for small player, now the real thing is to have an evolved engine. Where Wolframalpha offer a computational knowledge engine, Bing offer a decision engine. So far Google can keep being Google fearless ; ) Bing (also known as Kumo) should be publicly available on June 3rd. At least the… Read More »
Just in case you haven’t seen it yet, a biographical look at the men who founded Apple and Microsoft and a look at the early days of the companies. Enjoy, Ahmet 0 Kudos Don'tmove!
Just noticed that Visual Studio 2010 pro (beta 1) is now available to download as a web installer. I am personnaly quite new to the VS world, I have been using it daily for only 9 month now. I must say that I am still quite impresse by the simplicity and the power this tool have.… Read More »