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Software Development Engineer in Test: The chilling truth behind the SDET acronym!

I’ve been working as a “Software Design Engineer in Test/QA Engineer/White Box QA” for about 4 months now and I keep getting asked the the following question:

What does SDET mean?

Let’s learn more about this mysterious acronym SDET.

First up… the quick Microsoft definition:

A Software Design Engineer in Test is a developer who [...]

Outlook not so good.

The application that I’m working on politely emails me when things go wrong and normally this is great. However, let’s say you leave it running all night and an error happens 5 times per second for 8 hours, not so good. So, for the past hour my CPU has been at 100% as [...]

Developers can’t wear nice clothes.

When is the interview? anonymous coworker

More background on geek style and dress codes can be found here and here.

Keyboard Recommendations Needed

I’ve been a happy hacker keyboard user for about 2 years now and I love it. Normally I’m working with Vim for coding, even in Visual Studio thanks to ViEmu. My new job has me working with IDEA which is an awesome editor, however to use it well you’re always hitting combinations of [...]

First Week at the New Job

Started working at the new job this week, this is the recap:

Day 0 (aka Monday): Wake up at 6:00, wait to leave till 8:20, walk 30 minutes to work… find a coffee shop and eventually arrive at the office around 9:15, no one was in yet. Once people showed up I found out [...]