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Questions With Jason Blue Barile  May 26, 2008  Jason Blue
Barile has been testing at Microsoft for some ten years now,
working on products such as Internet Explorer and the Windows
shell. Before that he lived the college life at Vanderbilt
University, where he Research Assisted at the Intelligent
Robotics Lab and worked on projects such as a theremin-playing
robot. These days Jason is Test Manager for Microsoft Visual
Studio Team Foundation Server down South in North Carolina. I
wonder if he's working on a testing robot....  Here is what
Jason has to say:   JBB: I've always been a tester at heart. I
recall buying a book with 100 text-based games in BASIC when I
was in 7th grade and spending hours on my Apple IIe debugging
problems with code for a Star Trek game in the book. I recall
being extremely satisfied each time I found a bug and marveling
at how such a great book could be published with buggy source
code. In high school, I ran a bulletin board sy