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Visual Studio 2010

Licensing Questions? Corinna Sameli Corinna Sameli

on average professional coders make 100 to 150 errors in every 1000 lines of code they write software bugs cost the US economy an estimated $59.5 billion every year last year, canceled projects cost firms $67 billion; overruns on the other projects racked up another $21billion

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USS Yorktown, SmartShip

Ariane 5 Flight 501

F-22 Raptor Raptor is likely the most advanced manned aircraft that will ever fly…

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Training Conditioning Climbing

Development Test Release

Push Quality Upstream Development Test Release

GeneralistSpecialist Manual Testing Some scripting Creates scripts to set up lab, create data Strong scripting skills Some coding skills Strong coding Develops fully automated testing procedures Expert coding skills Tester Segmentation Black Box Testing White Box Testing API Testing 70% of testing happens here majority of test tools target here

What usually happens when a tester finds a bug? Graphic by Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror.com)

Credit: Michael Niggel

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Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit