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This Website is hosted on http://www.officelive.com.  I use it to create and host document libraries for presentations or other large files.  Most of my other publishing is done on by blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/kenj or on twitter at http://twitter.com/RKJohnston.  I also post test related podcasts to http://www.youtube.com/user/ElKenster.  If you want to contact me it is best to do so through Twitter or my Blog site.

 

BIO: Ken Johnston is the Group Manager for the Microsoft Office Internet Platform & Operations team. This team develops manageability features for server products and services as well as provides live site operations support for Office Online, Office Live, CRM Online and several other services. Since joining Microsoft in 1998 Johnston has filled many other roles, including test lead on Site Server and MCIS and test manager on Hosted Exchange, Knowledge Worker Services, Net Docs, and the Microsoft Billing and Subscription Platform service. For two and a half years (2004-2006) he served as the Microsoft Director of Test Excellence.

Publications

 

"How We Test Software at Microsoft" authors Alan Page, Ken Johnston and Bj Rollison.

 

In this book Alan, Bj and I share great internal stories from inside Microsoft on exactly what software testing techniques we use, how we use them, and some of our successes and failures. 

 

WWW.HWTSAM.COMNow available in English, Chinese, and Korean.

 

Speaking Engagements

Upcoming:

Looks like I'll be at the Better Software Conference June 7-11 in Las Vegas. 

 

Microsoft Internal - TiP-ing Services Testing (The evolution of Testing in Production)

When: January 14, 2009

 

Recent Presentations:

Slides and Video now posted

TwinSpin and Benchmark QA

 

When: Nov 5th 2009 6:00-7:30pm

Where: 7301 Ohms Lane, Suite 560, Edina, MN 55439

Topic: Testing in the Cloud

 

 

STAR WEST - Oct 5-9 2009

http://www.sqe.com/starwest/

Half Day tutorial - What We Can Learn from Big Bugs that Got Away

 

Track Session - Testing the Client and the Cloud