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OneNote Testing

What it is like to be a tester on the Microsoft OneNote team and day to day life as an SDET in Office. Plus a few tips for using OneNote and an occasional powertoy.

A seemingly unrelated paper I was asked to read

I've been doing a brush up on my statistics skills recently. This has been going pretty well since...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 11/05/2013

A really great parody of shipping software

From my new friends in Yammer, here is “Ship it, Maybe”:...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/31/2013

This appeared outside my office

Looks like someone was busy creating a nice piece of art on the wall outside my office: Pretty nifty...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/28/2013

Holding on to duplicate bug reports

One of the ways we can resolve and close a bug around here is as a duplicate of another bug that...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/24/2013

Clone bugs

I've been working recently with a group of "cloned bugs" and wanted to explain a bit about...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/21/2013

A really cheap estimate

One of the questions I was asked to answer this week was, “When do you estimate you will be done...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/16/2013

Creating a link to a OneNote page on the desktop

One of the blogs I linked to is gone, so I decided I should update the directions for those folks...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/11/2013

Coming up with estimates for test work

This week has been busy and one of the tasks on our plate is defining estimates for test work needed...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 10/04/2013

Late last year I wrote about a tip for getting OneNote 2013 to print all pages of a printout to a...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/30/2013

Word count has been added to Onetastic

Thanks Omer! Way back, one of the testers here in OneNote (Jeff Cardon) wrote a word count addin for...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/26/2013

Where I was last week

I got to go to McGill University (www.mcgill.ca) in Montreal.  I went to help find folks to...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/23/2013

OneNote on the Today show!

We wound up a Today show segment about "Back to School" items. If you missed it, it is now available...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/12/2013

A little about our UI-less test harness

A question that comes up quite frequently when we introduce people to OneNote automation concerns...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 09/10/2013

Omer has updated OneTastic with the ability to upload macros

Omer sent an email a few days ago announcing a new feature in Onetastic.  Details and the links...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/27/2013

We had a "bug bash" with the new tester class at Microsoft this week

This was actually quite a bit of fun for us. Bruce, a former OneNote tester himself, transferred...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/22/2013

Defining a "bug" part 3

It is review time here at Microsoft and I already heard the phrase "I do not think I opened enough...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/19/2013

The OneNote 2013 XSD is out

Just a quick FYI that Dan put it on his blog today:...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/08/2013

I've been waiting for this book for quite a while

OneNote for Dummies is available:...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/05/2013

A week of digging through bugs

This last week has been very busy for me and others on the team. We've been digging into our bug...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 08/02/2013

Regedit added Favorites?

I have no idea how I missed this one, but at some point, at least in Windows 7, Regedit added a...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/29/2013

Updating the OneNote Text Importer for OneNote 2013

<Edit on 7/26/2013> I'm pulling this for now while I troubleshoot. Thanks for the reports and...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/22/2013

A nice photo in the OneNote hallway

Dan Escapa noticed this in the hallway today:...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/19/2013

Running the Windows 8 App Compatibility Tests

One other problem I mentioned with getting this most recent update to OneNote into the store was...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/19/2013

Our new immersive OneNote client shipped

In case you did not see the announcement on our OneNote Team blog, we shipped a new version of...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/16/2013

A tip to make outlines small before arranging on a page

This week I received an email from a fellow who wanted to move and rearrange outlines (containers)...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/11/2013

Code reviews on the test team

I've mentioned a few times in the past that before we (the test team) check in any code we have to...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/08/2013

Three OneNote clients shipped today!

The whole goal for us on any team at Microsoft is to ship software. We can optimize, debug, plan and...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 07/01/2013

OneNote’s own Nicole Steinbok talking at Ignite!

This is really great – OneNote PM Nicole gave a start (4 1/2 minute) talk at Ignite and it is now...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/28/2013

The training session I helped with is online

Back on June 4th, a couple of us on the OneNote team helped out with an online training session...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/27/2013

Our task library should be neutral and never pass or fail a task

The way our automation is structured is roughly done in two parts. The first part is our automated...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/24/2013

Got my PC Refresh machine - a Surface Pro!

One of the nicer advantages about working here at Microsoft was our big "PC Refresh" push...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/17/2013

Another OneNote in a window

Apparently, this is happening all through our building for the different applications which are...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/13/2013

Eton?

  I saw this in a coworker's window earlier this week. This is the view from the hallway: Since...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/12/2013

File sizes on Skydrive

This question came up during the training class on Tuesday in which I was answering questions behind...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/06/2013

Printing to OneNote in landscape or portrait

This question came in the last week but I do not remember where - maybe a comment on my blog - but a...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 06/03/2013

Working behind the scenes next week online during a OneNote training course

This should be pretty fun. Next week we are offering a free (in English) training course for folks...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/30/2013

Off to an all day training session

Today the entire OneNote team is headed out to an "offsite" training session in Bellevue....

Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/20/2013

Tip: reverse the keyboard on your Surface when you carry it

Nothing here directly related to OneNote, but this helped many folks around here so I thought I...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/16/2013

Minor fixes (tweaks) to some test code

One of the automated tests I own had a failing result a few weeks ago and in the process of fixing...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/13/2013

A tip to color the background of text in OneNote 2013

A request I get every so often is background colors for outlines. Essentially, people want to color...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/09/2013

Pretty good article advocating for a software testing degree

I noticed a thread over on slashdot about a writer advocating for "Software Testing" as a degree...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/06/2013

Testing the finger painting feature for OneNote

By now you have probably noticed that we added a new feature to OneNote - finger painting. Read all...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 05/02/2013

Removing OneNote notebooks from the list of recently opened

An email came my way late last week from a user that wanted to remove some notebooks from his list...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/29/2013

Enabling Tablet PC Components to get ink to work

Recently a topic came up in which a OneNote user, who does not have a tablet PC, was having...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/22/2013

We have a new advertisement for Office that features OneNote!

I just noticed this today: Pretty slick, I think.  I thought this one was unique enough that it...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/19/2013

Some acronyms I am using this week

I found myself using these acronyms repeatedly this week and since they are all relevant to testing,...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/18/2013

A typical test day in OneNote

Last week I had a typical day in the test team. Here's a sample of what happens. Finished a test...

Author: JohnGuin Date: 04/15/2013

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