Your Software Has Bugs

The processes, people, and technology of producing quality software...and other stuff I want to talk about....

Exposure Control: Software Services Peep Show

  It’s About Software Quality Not sure what you were expecting here at Your Software Has Bugs,...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 12/13/2010

Agile versus Waterfall Videos

The Rise and Fall of Waterfall is a cute video (although with a somewhat annoying soundtrack.. watch...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 11/22/2010

Microsoft Cosmos: Petabytes perfectly processed perfunctorily

I tell non-technical friends and family that I recently switched roles at Microsoft to the Bing...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 11/05/2010

Hooray for Buggy Software???

No this is not a piece on job security for Software QA Professionals. I was recently at a Test Team...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 10/04/2010

$#*! My Dev Manager Says

Prologue I read somewhere that one maxim of a successful blog was that you should never apologize...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 09/04/2010

Testing with Real Users - User Interaction and Beyond, with Online Experimentation

My talk at the Better Software Conference was a lot of fun. It was well received. If you want to...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 06/09/2010

Software Testing Cage Match: Amazon.com vs. Microsoft

While I previously made some comparisons between Amazon.com and Microsoft's different approaches to...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 04/28/2010

What is an SDET? Part 2

Since I have started blogging, a pattern has emerged. I make a post on some topic, it sits out there...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 04/21/2010

What is an SDET?

SDET stands for Software Development Engineer in Test (or Software Design Engineer in Test). I...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 04/18/2010

What The Heck Is Cloud Computing? – Another re-look, with Pretty Pictures

I am obsessed with answering Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s question, “What the Hell is...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 03/04/2010

Conditional Formatting of Appointments in Outlook 2010

Note: if you have problems with Outlook or this feature, please check out the Answers Forum, and/or...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 02/04/2010

Engineering Hubris

https://xkcd.com/319/ (remember the name of this blog is “Your Software has Bugs” :-)

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 01/31/2010

What The Heck Is Cloud Computing? – A Brief Re-Look

In a previous post, “What The Heck Is Cloud Computing?” I broke the cloud up into three...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 01/25/2010

Building Services: The Death of Big Up-Front Testing (BUFT)?

Let's start with some definitions: Death Demise, end, termination, the state of no longer existing...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 01/20/2010

Code Coverage, It’s Exciting!

In the recent Star Trek movie, following an on bridge brawl between Kirk and Spock, new arrival...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 01/05/2010

America's Fastest-Growing Salaries

There are many reasons to make your career in the Software Quality Assurance field, and courtesy of...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 01/04/2010

Service Deployments Should be Ramps, not Cliffs

[Going to try a mini-post…keeping it short and focused] In my previous post I introduced you to...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 12/27/2009

Don't just listen to your users…watch them with Online Experiments

Online Controlled Experimentation (also known as A/B Testing) is a subject I will re-visit often as...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 12/25/2009

Feeling TiPsy…Testing in Production Success and Horror Stories

One topic I hope to return to many times in this blog is that of TiP, or Testing in Production. For...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 12/14/2009

What The Heck Is Cloud Computing?

Larry Ellison, Founder and CEO of Oracle, asks the above question (using the R-rated word instead of...

Author: Seth Eliot Date: 11/30/2009

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