In this episode Matthew and Federico sit down with Lakshmi Padala from the SQL Reporting Services team to talk about how they tested the asp.net chart control and what some of the teams processes are. Join them as they learn about what its like to be a SDET in another business group at Microsoft.
- News: The AJAX Control Toolkit has started using the Lightweight Test Automation framework for functional testing.
- Introduction to Lakshmi and her choice of QA over DEV.
- Overview of what the Chart Control is and what it does.
- How did the cross team collaboration work with the ASP.NET team?
- Overview of the how the chart control was tested.
- API level testing
- Run time testing
- Design time testing
- How do you test a product that only produces an image? How does image comparison work?
- Scope of the chart teamâs test bed. (number, speed, and type of tests)
- Successful Model Based Test (MBT) implementation in the Reporting Services team
- Advantages to MBT
- Disadvantage to MBT
- Work a rounds to be successful
- Challenges using design time abstractions to test.
- What is the life cycle of a feature/product in the Reporting Services team?
- Trust level security concerns when testing the chart control.
- Lakshmiâs favorite part about working at Microsoft.
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