Mike,

>>A suggestion.. If you are able, could you perhaps post a series of white papers or write some articles on the subject. I think we in the VFP community need this kind of information much more badly than perhaps we know..
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>Hmm, good idea. I won't have it ready in time for DevCon, simply because it's kind of last-minute and I'm not even done with the session I planned to present, let alone the testing session. I'll look into a whitepaper after DevCon, though.

Well, whatever you can do to point us in the right direction helps IMO.

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>The information is out there, though. Spend the bucks for the aforementioned Testing Computer Software by Kaner. FatBrain.com and Amazon stock it, as well as your local mega-bookstore. That book is going to be as real-world and hit-the-ground-running as anything I can write. You tightwads out there can surf to www.sqe.com and www.stqe.com and get good testing info for free, but you're going to have to sift through the info a bit if you're not a professional software QA person (not all of it is applicable and practical for a small shop).

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Hey! I have just about every book Whil has published and I spend a lot every year on my skill set - such as it is. <g>

Maybe you were talking about all those other tightwads?? <g>

I'll go take alook at your references. That's really all I usually need but having someone's persprctive like yours helps as well.

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>Also, get Code Complete (Connelly? O'Connelly?) from MS Press. This book is good for teaching you how to write code that will survive competent testers. :-) A lot of the book will make a seasoned developer or tester go, "well, duh" (or not; I got some of my best testing ideas from that book), but it should be required reading for any CS college student.

I have Code Complete - read most of it. I'm looking at getting myself and my developers the FoxPro Visual UML stuff as well to help discipline their thought processes and so forth.

I hear a lot of whining about how MSFT does this or doesn't do that (most of which I disregard as simple griping) but I am of the notion that I need to take responsibility. I just need pointers and I'd bet a lot of the others do as well.

Thanks again.