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Alan Page: On Testing

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Alan Page Microsoft

Alan Page is a principal SDET—a fancy name for tester—on the Xbox console team at Microsoft. Edging up on twenty years in software testing, Alan has previously worked on a variety of Microsoft products including Windows, Windows CE, Internet Explorer, and Office Lync. He spent some time as Microsoft’s director of test excellence where he developed and ran technical training programs for testers throughout the company. Alan was the lead author of How We Test Software at Microsoft and contributed chapters on large-scale test automation to Beautiful Testing and Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation. You can follow Alan on his blog or on Twitter @alanpage.

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Alan Page: On Testing

Test Ideas are…Ideas

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The Adjacent Possible

Liquid Networks

The Slow Hunch

Serendipity

Error

Exaptation

Platforms

Verifier Tools

Functional Testing

Acceptance Tests

Scenarios

Usability Testing

World Readiness

Exploratory Testing

Take home / Beta

Unit Testing

Code Coverage

Static Analysis

Code Churn Analysis

Performance Testing

Security / Privacy Testing

Stress Testing

Quality Product

Quality Engineering

Customer Facing

Technology Facing

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Testers, Teams, and Test Teams

Generalizing Specialists

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How Does Microsoft …?

Leadership is the art of getting

someone else to do something you

want done because he wants to do

it.Dwight Eisenhower

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Some Career AdviceSome Career Advice

learn your A-C-B’s

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find the steepest learning curve

ride the gravy train

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find a mentor

don‘t flip the bozo bit

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the three p’s

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