July 2012

Handling UAT if users constantly miss things

Submitted by Bevan on Sat, 28/07/2012 - 13:47

Scott Hanselman tweeted:

How do you handle user acceptance testing if the users consistently miss things?

Sometimes it takes more than 140 characters to give a decent reply.

At my work, we run two distinct phases of testing, System Testing and User Acceptance Testing.

Comspec corruption: Solved

Submitted by Bevan on Wed, 25/07/2012 - 07:47

As a followup to my recent post "Comspec corruption", I'm happy to report that the culprit has been found.

The installer for the client drivers for accessing a Sybase database.

What on earth they were thinking, I'll never know ... but at least I know that I'll need to fix COMSPEC after any reinstall of that driver.

Comspec corruption

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 10/07/2012 - 20:08

Following on from my earlier (Visual Studio 2012 RC Woes) post describing my problems installing Visual Studio 2012 RC.

It turns out that some errant installer had set two values for my Comspec environment variable:

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ComSpec should only ever point to one copy of cmd.exe.

Removing the second copy fixed things, and now VS2012RC installs just fine.