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title: "Testing Blogs at Microsoft, and Addin contest news"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/10/testing-blogs-at-microsoft-and-addin-contest-news.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/10/testing-blogs-at-microsoft-and-addin-contest-news.html"
published: "2004-08-10T12:59:00"
updated: "2004-08-10T12:59:00"
tags: ["Addin Contest", "Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I had a great time today, doing yet another talk a “Ness” - one of the largest companies in Israel - about Agile development and XP projects. (We're working on making this talk again in the coming month available to all…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Testing Blogs at Microsoft, and Addin contest news

By Roy Osherove August 10, 2004 In [Addin Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest), [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published August 10, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

I had a great time today, doing yet another talk a “Ness” - one of the largest companies in Israel - about Agile development and XP projects. (We're working on making this talk again in the coming month available to all user group members).

Anyway -I found an old friend there that just started out as a QA lead, and was telling him how he could find a vast amount of information about testing from the guys at Microsoft that are in charge of testing - the software test engineers. I remember some posts out there that were talking about  the growing list of testing blogs and resources out there. anyone have any idea where that post is?

Right now I could find this blog from STEs:  

[http://weblogs.asp.net/chappell/](http://weblogs.asp.net/chappell/) and it looks promising.

Leave a comment with resources you think I should point to next time he asks me.

 As for the addin contest: results will be announced by the end of the week hopefully. I'm trying to make this close as soon as I can ,but real life comes in and like in a lot of community projects - I jsut can't find the time to finish this. All the would be winners: stay tuned. I **know** how much this means to you!

## More in Addin Contest

[All posts in Addin Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/category/addin-contest)

- Aug 13, 2004

    ### [Add-in Contest winners announced!](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/13/add-in-contest-winners-announced.html)

- Jul 18, 2004

    ### [Announcing:Coolest Add-in Contest - Entries available for download](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/18/announcingcoolest-add-in-contest-entries-available-for-downl.html)

- Jul 2, 2004

    ### [Add-in contest submission phase is now officially over](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/2/add-in-contest-submission-phase-is-now-officially-over.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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