Testing and Betas

Check out Michael Hunter's interview with Alan Page, a test architect on Microsoft's Engineering Excellence team. Alan discussed his philosophy on testing and the evolution of testing tools at Microsoft. He also notes that improvements in development tools are finding the "easy" bugs further upstream, so in the future testers are likely to spend more time uncovering the more-subtle bugs.

Speaking of testing, if you wanted to try out Windows Vista RC2, you had to act fast. Microsoft offered the download to technical beta testers, TAP testers, and MSDN/TechNet subscribers beginning on Friday, but by Monday afternoon, RC2 was no longer available. Apparently demand was too great, and Microsoft can only process feedback from a finite number of testers.

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