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2012 2

  1. Brent's Favorite Bug
  2. JMike's Favorite Bug

2011 1

  1. Mohan Sagar's Favorite Bug

2010 14

  1. CAST Away
  2. Talking Clocks
  3. I'm A Twit!
  4. Reliable Intent
  5. Sometimes Sausage Making Is Beautiful!
  6. Stressing The Matrix
  7. Denise Signer's Favorite Bug
  8. I'm Stressed!
  9. My Very Busy CPU
  10. How To Increase Your Chances Of Surviving A Microsoft Interview
  11. The New Guy
  12. Raman's Favorite Bug
  13. Status
  14. John Mac Millan's Favorite Bug

2009 36

  1. Sumit Kalra's Favorite Bug
  2. Thelma Whitehorton's Favorite Bug
  3. Donny Liu's Favorite Bug
  4. Sherry Chupka's Favorite Bug
  5. The Bug That Makes Craig Laugh Every Time
  6. Tom Whalen's Favorite Bug
  7. Anutthara's Favorite Bug
  8. Bruce Shankle's Favorite Bug
  9. Vamshidar Rawal's Other Favorite Bug
  10. One Of Vamshidar Rawal's Favorite Bugs
  11. Implementing Automated Software Testing
  12. Jurgen Appelo's Favorite Bug
  13. Xu's Favorite Bug
  14. Scott Banning's Possibly Most Frustrating Bug
  15. Jeetendra Kukreja's Favorite Bug (2 of 2)
  16. Jeetendra Kukreja's Favorite Bug (1 of 2)
  17. How We Test Software At Microsoft (Sometimes, Somewhens)
  18. Anand Thakker's Favorite Bug
  19. Alan Myrvold's Favorite Bug
  20. Eric Sink's Favorite Bug
  21. Jake P’s Favorite Bug
  22. Alan Hynes' Favorite Bug
  23. Baskets Of Bugs
  24. Snow In Seattle On April Fool's!
  25. JakeBrake's Favorite Bug
  26. Cathy McBride's Favorite Bug
  27. Jonathan Kohl's Favorite Bug
  28. Banking Expectations
  29. James W's Favorite Bug
  30. Gerald M. Weinberg's Favorite Bug
  31. Josh Poley's Favorite Bug
  32. What Is Your Favorite Bug?
  33. Testing Curiosity
  34. Falsely Responsible
  35. Heuristical Madness
  36. Back In The Saddle Again

2008 45

  1. Story Time
  2. Testing Reality
  3. So You Want To Work For Microsoft...
  4. What I Will Do
  5. Eavesdropping On Testing
  6. A Medley Of Tools
  7. What Do You Do?
  8. K-Based Testing
  9. Games Testers Play
  10. Tester Center Tester Spotlight: Ivo Manolov
  11. Nike Testing
  12. Rhymeless References
  13. Finally! The Finish!
  14. Trio Of Tastes
  15. New Lingo Please!
  16. Timely Play
  17. Feeling Logical
  18. Concretely Abstract
  19. Intro, Extra, Energy
  20. The Gang Of Four
  21. Tester Spotlight: Bryan Lipscy
  22. Myers And Briggs And Their Guinea Pig
  23. Types And Styles And Body Parts, Oh My
  24. One Fish, Two Fish, Sensing Fish, Intuitive Fish
  25. Conversationally Communing
  26. Why Why Why Why Why?
  27. Tester Center Tester Spotlight: Rob Straavaldson
  28. Mission Control
  29. CASTing For Participants, Part 2
  30. It's A Live (Mesh)!
  31. Campy Conclusion
  32. Shifting Subjects
  33. Timely Tempo
  34. A Base(ic) Vocabulary
  35. Cnd
  36. Know? No. See!
  37. Scripting Exploratory Smack Down
  38. Problem Solving Heuristic #1142: Spin
  39. Problem Solving Heuristic #1128: How Interesting
  40. Campy Bear Heuristics
  41. CASTing For Participants And Papers
  42. Zoning For The Holarctic Region
  43. Two Hour Parking
  44. Check It Out
  45. Developers Develop And Testers Test; What Else Is There To Know?

2007 56

  1. I Want A BVT Blocking Bug For The Holidays
  2. Klutzes, Savants, And Mediums (Oh My)
  3. Contracted Conversations
  4. Call Stack
  5. A Tester's Rejoinder
  6. A Developer's Demands
  7. I Don't Think That's Exactly What They Meant, Exactly
  8. AYE - Amenities
  9. AYE - Friday
  10. AYE - Thursday
  11. AYE - Wednesday
  12. AYE - Tuesday
  13. AYE - Monday
  14. AYE? Aye!
  15. The Test Laboratory
  16. Doctors Are Testers Too
  17. Rampant Reactions
  18. Tester Central
  19. A Tester's Translation Table
  20. Tricky Trojans
  21. Missing States
  22. My Test
  23. If I Understand You Correctly
  24. Testing Ideals
  25. Planning Does Not Necessarily Make Perfect
  26. Testing In The Wild
  27. Quantum Testing
  28. The Path Not Taken
  29. Headlines
  30. Business BASIC(s)
  31. The Answer Will Hit You Like A Ton Of Bricks
  32. Testing Estimation
  33. Tester Dragon
  34. Tester Quiz
  35. Hunter Hunted
  36. YAPTTAT
  37. Riffing On Testers
  38. Tatoo Detective
  39. Wordsmithing
  40. It Depends
  41. And Now For Something Completely Different
  42. Automate This!
  43. Let's Go Bust Some Silos!
  44. Driver Wanted
  45. Super Dev
  46. Test Trimming
  47. Sign + Cup = Teaching Moment
  48. Brain Overload
  49. They're (gasp) Everywhere!
  50. Payback Time
  51. Hot Fix Heaven
  52. Shampoo Testing
  53. Tag I'm It
  54. Micahel?
  55. This Is Your Brain On RST
  56. Resolving Resolutions

2006 63

  1. Software Wonderland
  2. Testing In Five Easy Steps
  3. Can Developers Test?
  4. Systin Testing
  5. Might Means
  6. The Three Most Important Considerations
  7. Mistaken Opportunities
  8. Tester Mentality
  9. NOK? ACK!
  10. How'd Ya Miss That?
  11. Pawn Takes King
  12. Colombia, Here I Come!
  13. Fantasy Island?
  14. Ideaful Idealists
  15. Artful Artisans
  16. Eight Miles An Hour
  17. Irrational Rationals
  18. Temper Temper Temperament
  19. Forty Miles?
  20. Take One Down, Try It On, Ninety-nine More Possible Metrics On The Wall
  21. Bad Dev Lead! Bad! Bad!
  22. "Developer" Diary
  23. Fast Today Or Fast Tomorrow - Your Choice
  24. Purple Dragons Designing
  25. Tablet Gaming
  26. One Little, Two Little, Three Little Versions
  27. Tiny Tablets Trikkeing
  28. Learn This!
  29. Semantic Dream Analysis
  30. My New Toy
  31. Change Takes Time
  32. No Bounds For You!
  33. Security Security Security Security
  34. Hooray For Me!
  35. Hallmarks Of A Great Tester
  36. Weight Loss For Software Development
  37. STAR East anybody?
  38. Yes Virginia, You Do Have A Spec
  39. Entropy Happens
  40. Bug Whacking
  41. An Especially Bad Case Of Estimation Gone Awry
  42. Now Serving: Daily(ish) Blogs
  43. My Job Is *Not* To Write Test Cases
  44. The Book Of Bugs
  45. Who Says A Tester Has To Test?
  46. SDWest: Agility And Architecture
  47. SDWest: Behavior Driven Development
  48. SD, Here I Come!
  49. Please Pardon The Mess...
  50. Testing For Developers Illustrated
  51. Lunging Madness
  52. Tests In The Spec Before Code?
  53. Yo Yo Yo - New Expression Bloggers
  54. It's Not What You Know That Matters
  55. Michael's (Mostly) Raw Breakfast Muesli
  56. Help Us Help You
  57. Through The Glass Darkly
  58. My Perfect PC
  59. Testing For Developers
  60. StarEast, Here I Come!
  61. Re: When To Automate
  62. I Can't Test This
  63. How To Become A (Great) Tester

2005 72

  1. Roadmap For The Next (Five) Year(s)
  2. When To Automate
  3. Signature Strengths
  4. TheBraidyTester.com
  5. My Physical Has Gone Mental
  6. 3,500,000 Euros!
  7. I Don't Care - But I Do
  8. $1,000,000
  9. Let Go Your Fear
  10. The Best Software Writing Indeed!
  11. My Favorite Things
  12. Dr. Dobb's + Me
  13. End The Positive/Negative Schism!
  14. How Do You TDD UI?
  15. Sparkle Bloggers: A Compendium
  16. Mrmmmf == Microsoft Expression “Sparkle Interactive Designer”
  17. I Am Victorious!
  18. How To Unit Test Avalon / Windows Presentation Foundation
  19. Inkboard!
  20. A Mobile Digital Whiteboard Device
  21. What Is A Braidy Tester, Anyway?
  22. Mrmmmf == ???
  23. Fail Fast
  24. Killing Me Hardly With Its Trash Talk
  25. I Want Testers, Not Automators
  26. Take My Ideas, Please!
  27. The LFM Applied
  28. Now *That's* A Tester!
  29. Verily, 'Tis Truth
  30. No Guts, But Lots Of Glory
  31. A Peek Behind The Curtains
  32. Who Ya Gonna Call?
  33. Use Your Users' Viewpoint
  34. Nuts And Bolts
  35. All For One And One For All: Our Complete Automation Stack
  36. How Do I Invoke Thee? Let Me Count The Ways: The Physical Object Model
  37. Show Me Yours: Application Internals
  38. Did You? Did You Really? Loosely Coupled Comprehensive Verification
  39. How High? For How Long? Using Which Foot? Data Manager
  40. One Method To Rule Them All: Execution Behavior Manager
  41. It All Starts With User Features: The Logical Functional Model
  42. So What Should A Test Case Look Like?
  43. Testers Are Little More Than Accountants In A Factory
  44. Test Is Back-Loaded
  45. Test Cases Are Maintenance Hogs
  46. Test Cases Have Intimate Knowledge Of The User Interface
  47. Most Of Each Test Case Exercises A Small Fraction Of The Code
  48. Multiple Paths Of Execution Cause Duplicated Verification
  49. Execution And Verification Are Tightly Coupled
  50. From Accountant To Scientist
  51. There Goes The Neighborhood
  52. Build Me Up Tear Me Down
  53. To Power Point, And Beyond!
  54. Show Them That You Care
  55. Office Space
  56. Stuffing My Brain, Part 08
  57. Stuffing My Brain, Part 07
  58. Stuffing My Brain, Part 05
  59. Stuffing My Brain, Part 04
  60. Stuffing My Brain, Part 03 [Prologue]
  61. SD From Not Me
  62. Stuffing My Brain, Part 01
  63. Hunt The SDE/T
  64. Talkie Walkie Trustie
  65. Slow And Steady Wins The Race
  66. Grading On A Curve
  67. Good Enough
  68. Test Me
  69. You Can't Fix Every Bug
  70. Exterminate Those Bugs!
  71. Choose Your Own Adventure
  72. You Gotta Work!

2004 42

  1. Grow, Darn You, Grow!
  2. Tis The Season For Overeating, Fa La La La La, La La La La
  3. Repro This!
  4. Bad Error Message! Bad! Bad!
  5. Software Statistics Engineer?
  6. Milestone Ho!
  7. I'm a Tester, Jim, not a QA Engineer!
  8. System.Console.WriteLine(My.BlogRoll.ToString())
  9. Just As, Not Less Or More
  10. Why I'm An SDE/T
  11. Another Mrmff Person Blogging!
  12. Monkey Want A Banana?
  13. Yes Virginia, Developers Really *Can* Test
  14. What's Your Strongest Language?
  15. Baby Steps
  16. Show Me
  17. I Am Such A Geek!
  18. Test Hooks == Happy Customers
  19. Hook, Line, and Tester
  20. Go Ahead, Mock Me
  21. Preemptive Testing
  22. See Braidy Tester Read Code. Read, Braidy Tester, Read!
  23. Cook It Up
  24. True Stories In Test Automation
  25. Weird But True
  26. Hallmarks of a Great SDE/T
  27. Hallmarks of a Great Developer
  28. My boss is blogging
  29. Kill those warts!
  30. Speed Trap
  31. Hickory dickory dock, A tester ran out of clock
  32. OOPs I did it again
  33. Hypocrites That We Are
  34. Screen Door
  35. Sacrifice me!
  36. This book exists because of me
  37. Scottie, spec me up!
  38. When specs go bad
  39. When you don't have a spec, everything is a bug
  40. Adventures in Tabletting
  41. New kid on the blogk
  42. The Tester Song