Category Archives: testing

Fixing “Stuck” Downloads in the Comixology Windows App

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Nithin Shenoy

The Comixology Windows app is an unfortunate disaster. What started off as a nice offline reader for the Comixology library has suffered from lack of any new features (like simple organization of owned content), and worse, serious regressions in functionality. … Continue reading →

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I Didn’t Mean to Break It, Really. :(

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Nithin Shenoy

Some people feel that the tester’s job is to break software, whereas the developer’s job for performing testing activities is to make sure software works. This dichotomy, or disconnect, can sometimes be fun. Like yesterday… At Mimeo.com, our ability to … Continue reading →

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Oh snap – I denied “Everyone” permissions from my MSMQ

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Nithin Shenoy

Yeah, so in a brilliant move today, an MSMQ on my QA box was accidentally destroyed maliciously when I set Deny permissions for “Everyone”. Oops. Luckily this StackOverflow response from user Houman saved my ass. Simply navigate to C:\Windows\System32\msmq\storage\lqs and … Continue reading →

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Inspiration in Everyday Things

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Nithin Shenoy

I was lucky enough to attend CAST 2014 last week. CAST is a wonderful conference bringing some of great minds of the testing community together under one roof. Michael Larson has great summaries of the two day conference on his … Continue reading →

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AppFabric DataCacheServerLogManager Hates Your Trace.WriteLines

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Nithin Shenoy

I like to fill my test code with TONS of logging. I log damn near everything because I hate it when the team has to waste time answering, “Can you get me a repro?” when we can just peruse the … Continue reading →

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Migrating TFS shelvesets to another branch

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Nithin Shenoy

I keep forgetting how to do this, so I’m posting it so I don’t have to keep Googling this with Bing every time: tfpt unshelve “[shelveset name]” /migrate /source:”$/serverpath/branch1″ /target:”$/serverpath/branch2″

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FusLogVw and ILDasm to the Rescue

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Nithin Shenoy

I spent a bunch of time helping out one of my devs yesterday with a problem that arose from an absolutely trivial change. Isn’t that how all debugging sessions start? “It was a simple change, I don’t understand why these … Continue reading →

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Born to Test?

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Nithin Shenoy

There are those random times where you find a bug and think, “Damn, I was born to test!” The other day I found a bug where this was the case – quite literally… At Mimeo.com, we have a set of … Continue reading →

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Using UISpy to Handle the Windows Security Dialog in Windows 7

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Nithin Shenoy

In the previous post, I gave a solution for automating the dreaded “Windows Security” dialog in IE using UIAutomation. Reader Ven left this comment: “Hey, This is exactly what I’ve been looking for, but when I seem to run it … Continue reading →

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Automating the “Windows Security” Dialog with UIAutomation

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Nithin Shenoy

I decided to finally learn some Selenium in order to test an internal Line of Business (LOB) web application. After a quick crash course on Selenium automation, I got a prototype for my test initialization working, but quickly hit this: … Continue reading →

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