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Friday, November 02, 2007 1:13 AM

Longest remote home folder test … 600 miles…

Sorry it’s been so long since my last post, but I’ve been quite busy fixing bugs which are either old, new, borrowed and quite far away. In fact some are so far away it takes driving all the way to Burbank, CA to verify the fix. I’ve spent a good number
Posted by ExCntx | 18 Comments
Monday, October 08, 2007 4:08 PM

Update on Office 2008 progress!

Last Wednesday was our general “ZBB” target for the Office 2008 project, a major milestone on the road to release and something we’ve been pushing hard for over the past several months. We saw some fantastic surging by the development team to clear out
Posted by Geoff Price | 55 Comments
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:35 PM

Speaking of numbers...

One of the features in Excel I'm in charge of testing is "Calculation, Functions, and Formulas", which (surprise!) is exactly what it sounds like. Being a big math and numbers geek, I was very excited to learn that I would inherit these features when
Posted by joeleblanc | 10 Comments
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Friday, November 10, 2006 12:16 PM

Living complexity

Brad's Carl Sagan-style post on code size stirs up some familiar questions about complexity management here at MacBU. With every release of Office, we remove, rewrite and add new code. Often we can remove significant amounts of code without losing functionality
Posted by Geoff Price | 14 Comments
Saturday, September 30, 2006 1:14 AM

On the power of a small team -or- Why MacBU testing rocks

Geez, now I have to follow up David's awesomely funny entry about the food alias with my dry post on testing. One of the first classes I took after starting here was called “Testing at Microsoft for New SDETs.” This class was full of about 25 people who
Posted by joeleblanc | 1 Comments
 
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