Author Archives: shizen008

About shizen008

Breaking things and getting in trouble for it since '74. Disclaimer: I am not responsible if I make your head explode reading this blog! The writings here are my own expression and not of any companies. I currently work on being a QA for mobile and pancake

Been looking at the MCC/MNC api recently as

Been looking at the MCC/MNC api recently as there was some changes and was asked to look at it.  I did a bugzilla search and started looking at the interesting bugs: Bug 861397 – Automatic APN selection does not work … Continue reading

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I just recall from my past, some people

I just recall from my past, some people ask me … what makes a good qa. I think today, I stumbled upon a thought.  I think what measures a good qa’er is how far they are willing to go to … Continue reading

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Excellent article in regards to speeding up performance on your webpage.

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#minify

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Submitting pending crashes…

Ted just made a wonderful new script for us to upload pending folder crashes. It requires poster (ie you will have to run |sudo pip install poster| you run it by |submit.py /path/to/files/*.dmp| The submit.py script is found here : … Continue reading

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Genitive Dates

Recently I saw a bug on genitive dates.  I had no idea.  This blog helped me out: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/11/12/491274.aspx Thought I would share.

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So much of Albert Einstein’s quotes apply to QA testing… it’s inconceivable!  http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_einstein.html

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Community

What’s the definition of community? Does this include the company? Does this include any other company that’s involved on the project? Wouldn’t it be beneficial to the project if we help people that’s within the community working on the project? … Continue reading

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A wise man once said…

“Just talking does not resolve issues.” “Less you have to maintain, the more you are free to do other things.”

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Exploratory testing continued.

I came to realize for someone that’s starting saying “exploratory testing” is kind of an ominous blank page. The essence is that you are exploring each combination of things that you can do and map them as you go along… … Continue reading

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Example of Session based testing

see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830657#c23 30 minutes.  Tested a fix.  found 7 potential bugs. If you want agile testing… there you go. Now I just have check and verify they aren’t reported already… and file them if they aren’t…

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