Introductions
Greetings all. My name is Jacob Buis. I'm a Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft. I've been working on Windows and storage technology for the past eight years and I've decided that it would be a good idea to share some of my experiences and opinions in the field of test. I'll also be talking about the occasional storage topic, or anything else that might be of interest.
I'm going to begin with the topic of test automation, a subject that I have been involved with since my first day at Microsoft. I have found that test automation means different things to different people. Automation can vary in degree. Some tests have an amount of automation within them (e.g. scripts to perform various steps of the test) but still require a tester to manually perform some of the test steps, while other tests are fully automated from end to end and only require a single command to be started (and even that could be automated). I'll be tending to focus more toward the full automation side, at least initially.
Some other topics I'm planning on writing about in the not too distant future include:
- 1. Test reporting
- 2. Bug finding
- 3. Test planning
