Five Questions With Scott Louvau

Scott Louvau writes software for Microsoft. He doesn't write any software you have ever used, though, unless you have ever worked on his team. The software Scott writes, you see, is the software his team uses to test their product. To paraphrase the commercial, Scott doesn't test the software you use, he makes the testing of the software you use better.

Scott tells me that if he was not in software he would be some sort of craftsman because "I really like the idea of doing a job you can get better at every day". He recounts a Discovery Channel special on how aircraft carriers are built, a process which involves welding together giant panels of steel. The host watched as a welder took a panel which had buckled from the heat of welding it and completely flattened it with a single hit of his hammer. When the host asked the welder how he knew where and how to hit the panel, the welder replied "Twenty-eight years on the job".

Although Scott has only six years on the job so far, I am sure his teammates would agree that he knows where and how to hit their buckled panels in order to flatten them out. Here is what Scott has to say:



September 29, 2008
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