A testers worst nightmare

written by Ryan Rinaldi on Saturday, November 26 2005

I'm sitting at home this saturday evening doing some laundry and going through my laptop cleaning off unused programs.  I noticed that I had VS 2003 installed, and now that our team is moving to Team Foundation Server I figured it was high time to install VS 2005 Team System on this baby.

This is where I start to make software testers cry.

I fire up my VPN over my wireless connection on the laptop, map a drive to a share on our corporate LAN, load up Microsoft's Virtual CD-ROM tool and point it to an ISO that is on the newly mapped drive.  I then navigate on over to the virtual drive and fire up the VS 2005 install.

So I'm running on a wireless network over a virtual network to create a mapped drive (which, when you think about it is merely a virtual pointer to a UNC share) so I can load another virtual drive to actually run my install.

You think that edge case was tested? :)

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