2008-12-03T09:08:20Z http://blog.testyredhead.com/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:blog.testyredhead.com,2008-11-24:1561229 Thought 2008-11-24T19:01:02Z 2008-11-24T19:01:02Z tag:blog.testyredhead.com,2008-11-24:1561210 Thought 2008-11-24T18:56:51Z 2008-11-24T18:56:51Z
1) Only UI / Usability programmers should have anything to do with interfaces. Only one UI / Usability team should have control of the whole interface; everyone else should keep their grubby mitts off - and this should be enforced. It shouldn't be possible for any code other than an approved UI to do anything directly UI related; you're either UI or data, never both.

2) Updating code and data should be built into the lowest level of the OS. The OS sould be tracking the update source for each insalled piece, monitoring the traffic level on the network bottleneck point between the machine and each source where possible, and polling and updating its cached code and data in bits in the background when there's more than say 20% processor and traffic space free.]]> tag:blog.testyredhead.com,2008-11-22:1555846 Inder P Singh 2008-11-22T21:24:09Z 2008-11-22T21:24:09Z tag:blog.testyredhead.com,2008-11-13:1528863 Inder P Singh http://www.linkedin.com/pub/9/593/816 2008-11-13T06:08:26Z 2008-11-13T06:08:26Z
Inder P Singh]]> tag:blog.testyredhead.com,2008-11-11:1522795 Ellen M. http://www.esmilne.net 2008-11-11T08:51:27Z 2008-11-11T08:51:27Z tag:blog.testyredhead.com,2008-11-10:1521136 Testy Redhead 2008-11-10T20:09:16Z 2008-11-10T20:09:16Z
That is so very cool! I hope it goes well. Let me know if I can help out and how it goes in general.

If you are able to get a workflow exercise going, I'd be glad to participate if we can work out a non-disclosure/non-compete situation (of course depending on the team, but since I'm working on Suites it's not likely we are in direct competition). I'd be more than glad to go over any ideas with you that you might have for customizing your scorecard to make it apply to the workflows that you are trying to represent! Best of luck.

I've talked to 2 other people who had their first workflows with good results! I'm excited to see how the idea morphs as people adapt it to better suit their context. It was a wonderful conference and I'm already working on a paper for PNSQC 2009 where I hope to make us some nice signs.

Best of luck!

Lanette
]]> tag:blog.testyredhead.com,2008-11-10:1521123 Ryan Psenski 2008-11-10T20:02:45Z 2008-11-10T20:02:45Z Your presentation was my favorite from the PNSQC. Congratulations on the well-deserved honor of best paper. I'll be doing a 5 minute "teaser" about workflow testing at a test team meeting this Thursday. If my peers take an interest, I'll delve deeper into the topic at a dedicated meeting (where I'll pretty much regurgitate as much as I can remember from your presentation). Keep up the great work!
-Ryan, Microsoft]]> tag:blog.testyredhead.com,2008-11-03:1500124 Thought 2008-11-03T09:20:07Z 2008-11-03T09:20:07Z www.writingexcuses.com a marvelous podcast on writing (novels, web comics, etc) from inside the minds of professionals (it's their primary source of income). "15 minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart!" (:]]> tag:blog.testyredhead.com,2008-10-24:1473522 Lanette http://testyredhead.com 2008-10-24T14:55:26Z 2008-10-24T14:55:26Z
I'm just getting back in to learning more about UML. Any good tutorials or classes you'd recommend for becoming more comfortable with UML itself?

Thank you for these links. I've been enjoying them today!]]> tag:blog.testyredhead.com,2008-10-24:1472557 Chris 2008-10-24T09:05:00Z 2008-10-24T09:05:00Z
You won't find off the shelf tools for this, so one way or another you are in for custom programming of some kind to extend the tool. I've used Visual Build and Microsoft Team Foundation Server as the base build platforms.

The installer technology is another issue that can be a stumbling block. We use WIX which is working well for us. It is poorly documented, so there were some long days searching the web and experimenting to figure it out.

Our current media is a .msi release to the web, so final media is easy. If you have to produce a CD/DVD you might need to find an ISO creation app that fits into your workflow. That isn't too hard though.]]>