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
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