FrazzledDad

Congratulations! Your company is doing well enough that you need to find new folks for your growing team. I’ve been on the hiring side of th...

When I started hiring to build up my QA team I took a great idea from a friend who was hiring for her team: give potential candidates a ques...

I wrote an article on successfully selling developer level testing in your organization for nPlus1 . The article hits a lot of things I thi...

I was flattered to be asked to sit on a lunchtime discussion panel at last month’s Ann Arbor Day of .NET. David Giard moderated the discuss...

I’ve uploaded a zip with the slides and demo code from my “Web Testing with Selenium” at Saturday’s Central Ohio Day of .NET. You can find t...

We use Selenium (version 1.x) at work as a regression / functional test tool. We’ve gone through a number of iterations over the last year...

Update: Read the comments for some good tips from other readers. Firing up Visual Studio to simply build a solution is nuts. Do it from t...

This year’s installment of the Central Ohio Day of .NET is coming up soon! This year’s event is just a couple weeks away on 5 June. We’re r...

I spent Saturday at the Ann Arbor Day of .NET. Jason , Scott , John , and everyone else involved once again put on a tremendous event. It’s ...

I use batch files to automate much of my build process steps. I’ll grab the latest from our source repository with one batch file, build tru...

This bracelet hangs on my wrist and is a pretty good metaphor for me these days. It’s scratched, it’s bent, it’s beat up, and it’s hangin...

Problem: Trying to run msbuild.exe against a .sln file results in a failed build with an error message containing the error error CS1668 ...

We’ve had a rough few days with some virtualized servers on our testing infrastructure. Some SAN issues required some repair installs on a c...

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know , edited by Kevin Henney, pub by O’Reilly, ISBN 0596809484. This is another great book in O’Reilly...

Last year I got to attend an amazing conference: The Kalamazoo X Conference . Mike Eaton put on an amazing conference with a terrific lineup...

I’ve been running in to a number of problems where my Selenium tests are timing out when they first run in our automated build environment. ...

Problem: When using FireFox for Selenium tests, Selenium RC is throwing exceptions with the error message “Selenium.SeleniumException: Fail...

Windows Explorer lets you browse the Global Assembly Cache (GAC) and drop strongly-named assemblies in if you’ve the proper permissions. Wha...

Jon Kruger, Leon Gersing, and I are repeating our highly successful SWE 101 event ( event wrap up blogged here ) in Nashville, TN, on 2/27....

I’m a believer in test driven development. For many reasons. I don’t do it enough myself, the people I’m around don’t do it enough, the peop...