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Diary 28th Aug: Sit-in with SQL Test Team

Today's sit-in is with SQL test team, unfortunately my assigned mentor Leo could not come in this AM, while I'm glad that received a warm welcome from other members of that team, we talked about current work, tools & languages using, which was explained in details after Leo stepped in.

So, cut to the point:
the daily work of MDAC test team is not simply as test execution, stare at the screen, something like that, they are also doing:
building test infrastructure;
test new scenarios;

The latter 2 means a lot of coding, which is something different from Microsoft's test job and others.
Simply telling from the job title: SDET, Software Development Engineer of Test, we are actually doing test development.
It's never going to be a piece of cake job.
WTT, windows test technology (MDAC got very close relationship to windows) is a whole test infrastructure, which is very comprehensive & solid, yet still under continues improvement. For example, the MDAC team also developed the infrastructure of "Auto Lab Run System" to improve the automation test.
BTW, according to the MS development strategy of "component ownership", China R&D now owns the complete set of MDAC components, which includes : ADO, ODBC, OLE DB etc.

I list languages & tools & platforms we are using here:
Only apply to SQL Server R&D China MDAC test team:
Programming languages: C/C++.
Others: VB, C# plus.
Code review: Source Insight.
Debug: Windbg.

What is the good to be the SDET of Microsoft?
1. First of , as I also have mentioned in previous blog, Microsoft got the unparalleled test system and infrastructure, you have comprehensive space to learn & grow.
2. Test own wider responsibilities compares with developer, approaching whole functionalities of each product, communicating with dev team, lab team in China and US, coaching / monitoring vendors' team, etc.
3. Want to be SDEV, besides the coding skill, innovation of think out of the box, we also requiring great self initiative.

tags: SQL Server Team career opportunity

@ 20070829 02:55:00 with 2 comments

20070830 08:00:00: by guest 御风驹-生活要有死的觉悟 from http://sonicxu.spaces.live.com/
long time not talk. hope u still can remember me.. good to see you join in MS. keeping pathing yourself to the succeed. Good luck!

20070830 19:53:00: freedo from
In the year of 2004, starbucks, we talked about an opportunity of join 3PL as BDM for pharmaceutical industry, right?
If proved I'm right, means I'm still not that old. :D