LA Fox, June 11, 2002

Mike Stewart: Lead Test Engineer for Visual FoxPro

Topic: Testing Computer Software

Get a preview of DEVCON 2002, where Mike will speak on:
Testing and Deploying Visual FoxPro Applications


You will learn:
+ Learn how to create a test plan
+ Find out how to write effective test cases
+ Determine when it's time to quit testing and release the product
+ Get tips and tricks for finding easy-to-miss bugs that users will find

Testing complex software systems is a difficult task to master. How do you know you've tested the right things? How do you know when to stop testing? In this session, you will be introduced to the core concepts of professional software testing. From test plan creation to test case creation to releasing the product, you will step through each process of the software testing cycle. You will learn methodologies and techniques used by today's software testing professionals, and how you can apply it to your own development efforts.

"Heavy hitter", Mike Stewart of the VFP team with Microsoft. He is the guy that does the testing of VFP. He will be talking about software testing and it should be a great program. You can get a preview in his article in CODE Magazine.

A Google search of [ Microsoft OR Foxpro"Mike Stewart" ], yields 636 entries in the result set. He's famous! ( Is he the one with the body building course ? or the one in Australia ? )

On the Universal Thread, he has the rank of "General", at least Michel Fornier lists him as: "Mike Stewart - General VFP support"

Details of time and location may be found at: http://www.lafox.org/MeetingDetails.Page.fox