Technically Speaking

I like listening to music while I work, and I like having all of my music at my fingertips. It used to be that I had to literally have a full copy of all my music on my work computer, until I found this cool service called Lala. It's a music service where I can have an application scan my home collection, and then play any song I own in my web browser, instantly making my entire collection available from anywhere.

Continuing with my list of the most important tools for any web tester to have in thier arsenal, I turn to a set of tools that give you the low level HTTP information related to your tests.

The primary deliverable for many testers are bug reports. A treatise on what makes a good bug report is a post in and of itself, so i won't drill into that part (now), but will say that it's true that a picture says a thousand words. I've seen many bug reports with very little information get tossed around in triage meetings for weeks without resolution, because the tester didn't do a great job explaining the issue. I've also seen many bug reports with tons of information get tossed around in triage meetings for weeks without solution, because the triage team didn't want to wade through reams of complicated explanations.

I was planning on giving a talk to my test team at Nokia about great tools for web testers, and then the hammer dropped, and won't be able to. I was planning on blogging about them anyway, so my next few posts are from a version of that talk.

I've been playing Jewel Quest on XBox live Arcade recently. The essential point of the game is to match 3 or more gems of the same kind to color the squares they are on gold, removing them from the board, repeating until all the squares are gold. The game board refills with new random gems when you remove some. 

It's that time of year again, so the family went for Santa pictures. We've been going to the same photographer for the last 7 years or so, so all of our Santa photos are essentially the same - Same Santa, same setup, just growing kids and aging parents :). This year though the Santa was different, and not even remotely close to looking like the other Santa's. We were there so we took the picture anyway.

Wow, over a year since my last post. Alot has happened. I work for Nokia now, not Microsoft. Instead of working on ASP.NET, i'm working on a real Internet Service built with ASP.NET (http://share.ovi.com)