Category Archives: Testing

Mac OS X Snow Leopard, a Major Bug Fix Release

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Lloyd

I’m looking forward to the release of the next version of Mac OS X, version 10.6 Snow Leopard this September. As a Software Quality Assurance (QA) practitioner, I find it particularly interesting that this major release is basically a bug … Continue reading →

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On The Edge

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Lloyd

What contributes to me being a pretty good tester is that I have a knack for taking things apart, exploring the edges of a system, and breaking things.

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Isolate a Problem

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Lloyd

“Person has [environment] A. There is a problem X. Trying to troubleshoot X will be difficult until I can start to change the situation to see what happens to the problem.”
Writes WordPress Support Maven Mark in Please try Firefox . … Continue reading →

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Hunters of WordPress

Posted on March 13, 2007 by Lloyd

This past week WordPress development had the most successful bug hunts ever! I spoke correct, plural, two bug hunts. These hunters are the best!
“Find, confirm, and fix bugs, then submit and test patches for those bugs.”
From WordPress Bug Hunts

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WordPress bug gardening October results

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Lloyd

At the beginning of October there were 717 open of a total of 3015 tickets. Today there are 595 open of a total of 3249.
That is a 234 new tickets, a reduction of the backlog by 122, for total … Continue reading →

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WordPress 2.0.5 Release Candidate

Posted on October 18, 2006 by Lloyd

Last night WordPress 2.0.5 leads Ryan Boren and Mark Jaquith made available a release candidate.
Download it (zip, svn), report bugs, and discuss it on the WordPress testers mailing list. If there are no severe issues it will likely be released … Continue reading →

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Jacky Zhang Flocks

Posted on September 22, 2006 by Lloyd

The Flock team continues to get fresh talent. As I hinted last week, Flock has a new member their QA team this week, Jacky Zhang.

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WordPress Bug Limerick

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Lloyd

Not only is Mark Jaquith an incredibly talented WordPress developer, he can rhyme:
There once was a CMS from Automattic,
That had <!–more–> behavior quite erratic.
They flipped and they flopped,
Until Podz’s poor head popped
And the forums were put to a panic.
#2582 … Continue reading →

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So many bugs, so little time

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Lloyd

My first priority as a member of the Automattic team is wading into WordPress bug reports. This is my new bug garden.

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Flock beta 1 means?

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Lloyd

About three weeks ago we released Flock beta 1. Some friends have asked me what “Flock beta 1″ means.

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