I was walking down to listen to the George Cham talk, when I realized that the room that the talk was scheduled was actually about Microsoft and Windows Live and free pizza. Actually, I just found out that the George Cham talk (the creator of Piled Higher and Deeper which by the way is really funny and actually I can relate to as a PhD student!) is next Wednesday. But I didn't miss out because free pizza always piques my interest, so I naturally went in and got the free pizza. The talk is by the lead software tester at Microsoft for Windows Live. I'm interested in Windows Live, I use the Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Spaces, and Windows Live is the unifying platform across all Microsoft communication products, and in my opinion, is what Microsoft is doing to compete with Google and Yahoo. This is pretty much what he has said too.
Apparently, the speaker is talking about what software testers do and what are the traits of a tester. He is doing an exercise of testing in which you insert an image into Windows LiveWriter. What is LiveWriter? Think of it as a desktop client application for writing blog posts that you can then upload to Windows Live Spaces. The writing facilities within Live Spaces are abysmal, some of the writing tools work in Internet Explorer, but not with Mozilla Firefox (although at last check, it seems that Firefox can view the writer tools now). Basically, what types of things do you need to look at when testing, and how would you go about testing them? The Microsoft guy gave away free T-shirts for students that made suggestions of what to test for inserting an image in LiveWriter, and I got one! Here is the Microsoft blog for LiveWriter.
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