In this episode Matthew discusses his transition from QA to Developer. CodingQA is officially handed over to two other ASP.NET QA team members - Mark and Jim. We cover the latest product releases since the last episode, and we look at some examples of testers being developers.

 

This Week's News:

• New role
  • Matt re-joins the ASP.NET team as a developer
  • Why the switch?
• New owners
  • Mark and Jim take over the show
  • Introduction, history and role in the team
• Product releases
  • WebMatrix, ASP.NET MVC 3, NuGet, and the ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization Framework Preview 3

Testers as developers – real world examples:

• Mark takes a developer role working on the Sprite and Image Optimization Framework
  • How did that happen?
  • Jim tests Mark’s code
  • What did Mark miss and why?
• Jim describes his adventures playing the developer on the on the ASP.NET Web Pages templates NuGet packages
  • Mark tests Jim’s code
  • What did Jim miss and why?
• The value of a second set of eyes
• Thoughts on how we can further blur the lines between tester and developer