Subject: Agile 2007 is near

From: "Dr. Dobb's Win/.NET Update"<[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:29:48 -0400 (EDT)

Practicing .NET

Agile 2007 is near

Hopefully you signed up for the Agile 2007 conference that is coming to Washington D.C. from August 13-17. If not, you're out of luck since it sold out. If you are going, be sure to attend the sessions on introducing Agile to a team and various means to ensure its success.

The Book of Testing

Five Questions With Dave Catlett

Dave Catlett started at Microsoft in late 1989 as an intern in Product Support. Two years later he joined full time as a tester on the LAN Manager system, where he worked on the French and German versions of LAN Manager Services for Macintosh. That group became part of Windows NT, and so he tested Windows NT Services for Macintosh for the next several years. Next came a test lead position on the WinSock team, which eventually grew to include HTTP, WinHTTP, and WinInet as he helped ship Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.
That's a lot of networking experience!
These days Dave is a Principal Test Architect in the Windows Engineering And Tools team, where he researches and implements tools and processes for testability, risk evaluation, and complexity analysis. He sums this up as Q.E.D.: Quality, Engineering efficiency, and Delighting our customers.
Dave is perhaps most well known for his SOCK mnemonic for ensuring and improving testability. Here is what Dave has to say...

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