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Within Microsoft we have Pre-Prod but the typical use of Pre-Prod is one time run of deployment shortly before a full roll out to production. I find that to be a very expensive safety net that well, quite often fails us anyway. So, the classical int…
Good start on the Risk mitigation list.
I hope you aren't taking away the option of thorough testing in pre-production before making any changes into production environment? there are still tremendous advantages ensuring on pre-prod before moving i…
For my first post on Test Replic I thought I'd start off with my current favorit topic of testing web service in production and in this case the hazards ther of. I made a brief blog on the hazards of Testing in Production (TiP) on my blog on MSDN. I…
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- Ken Johnston is the GM for the Microsoft Office Internet Platform & Operations team. This team develops manageability features for server products and services as well as provides live site operations support for Office Online, Office Live, CRM Online and several other services. Since joining Microsoft in 1998 Johnston has filled many other roles, including test lead on Site Server and MCIS and test manager on Hosted Exchange, Knowledge Worker Services, Net Docs, and the Microsoft Billing and Subscription Platform service. For two and a half years (2004- 2006) he served as the Microsoft Director of Test Excellence.
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Testing in Production (TiP) Hazards - Follow up.
For my first post on Test Replic I thought I'd start off with my current favorit topic of testing web service in production and in this case the hazards ther of. I made a brief blog on the hazards of Testing in Production (TiP) on my blog on MSDN. I don't want to just repost that blog here but do have some additional thoughts to share since that post.
The blog was motivated the outage in the Microsoft Bing service last week. The outage was reported to be caused by a configuration change in supp… Continue
The blog was motivated the outage in the Microsoft Bing service last week. The outage was reported to be caused by a configuration change in supp… Continue
Posted on December 7, 2009 at 9:02am — 2 Comments
Comment Wall (2 comments)
- At 2:00pm on September 4, 2009,
ABHAY KUMAR said… - Excellent people meet in some of the occasion.
It looks great to see you. If I get chance to learn few things like handling critical situations in testing then it would be great help.
- At 9:35am on July 18, 2009,
EDISTA said…
- Welcome to Test Republic Ken. Hope to get your submission.
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