In this episode, Mark and Jim review their past week. Jim was down in Orlando speaking at DevConnections, engaging the community, and missing flights while Mark was hammering away (undisturbed) at an upcoming MVC tooling update and recording it all. Join them as they recount their adventures from the past week and how it all leads to better testing.

 

This Week’s News

• NuGet 1.2 released
• Head over to http://www.nuget.org for details

Jim was at DevConnections

• Delivering feature talks, the value of preparation, engaging customers and how it all makes you a better tester
• The joys of flight

Mark's week as a tester, testing

• Focused testing time is critical
• Few meetings, no rushing testing, how realistic is this?
• Employing testing tools
• Screen recording
• Cutting bug videos
• Use it wisely
• Debuggers
• Providing a deeper understanding of a bug
• Providing more information to the developer

App building rocks again

• Balancing test coverage versus producing a real world app
• Finding bugs typical feature testing will probably never catch
• Broad and up-to-date regression coverage