Anith Gopal

In case you haven’t heard, I am ALL OVER social networking.  If you follow my personal account , it’s full of cooking stories and food pics, DIY and crafting advice, My Fluevog shoe obsession, cute pictures of my dog, cute pictures of OTHER people’s dogs and tech stuff.  Maybe not your cup of tea, cause you just want the tech stuff.  Well, I have another Twitter account that I occasionally allude to, and it’s strictly business. Microsoft business that is, in the Midwest (Illinois,…( read more )

Syed Aslam Basha here. I am a tester on the Information Security Tools Team responsible for testing CAT.NET.

RV here… Cascading Style Sheets provide developers ways to change the UI theme of a website and this provides many opportunities for malicious users to change the UI if the application uses dynamic data inside style tags or in HTML style attributes

Andreas Fuchsberger here….. Within the Information Security Tools Group we are now really getting into a redesign of our popular Code Analysis Tool for .NET (CAT.NET)

I am happy to announce that we have released CTP 5 of the “WPF Application Quality Guide” – our single-stop document for WPF application and component developers and testers. CTP 5 comes with the following new and updated content: New content: “Considerations for WPF Browser Applications” “Integration and Scenario Testing” “XAML Editing Tools and Visual Studio Add-ins” “Building a WPF Application Test Suite by Using VSTS, NUnit, or xUnit” Updated content: Reading roadmap “Performance and Scalability Testing” “TestApi” “Debugging Tools” “Performance Profiling Tools” “WPF Application Design and Development Tools” The Guide is available here and here as a DOC file

I am excited to announce that we have just released the second preliminary version of TestApi – the testing API library – on http://codeplex.com/testapi ! The v.0.2 package includes the following additions and modifications: Improved command-line parsing APIs Improved visual verification APIs A new tolerance map visual verifier in SnapshotToleranceMapVerifier New operations on snapshot (And and Or) allowing you to mask A new Snapshot.FromWindow(…) constructor with ability to include and exclude the window chrome in snapshots. Improved visual verification internals New application control APIs, enabling in-proc and out-of-proc automation of client applications Expanded conceptual documentation CHM API documents (in addition to the HTML documents) Addition of NUnit and xUnit usage samples (for all of the non-VS crowd out there) Check out the package and let us know of any feedback.

Earlier this week I opened up my list of bugs assigned to me and noticed I had one that was asking for more information. The details are long, arcance and, frankly boring, but the gist of the bug was some timing related problems if a user was both creating and opening folders from the hard drive as notebooks very quickly. "Quickly" in this context means creating and opening 5-10 folders per second – much faster than I could do this manually, but not that unreasonable for an automated tool to complete this test