Random Thoughts

Several professors in the Instructional Technology department seem to have it out for me. But that’s OK. I don’t take it personally. They don’t even really know who I am. You see, I work for the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, or COSL. The feeling in my department is…

The first days here in Europe have been mostly meetings and travel, but today we rented rode bikes and rode 55 km in Holland. Part of the time we could see Germany and Belgium, but we didn’t cross over. Here are some photos of the trip: http://www.flickr.com/photos/caswell_tom/sets/72157600150840734/ I have been…

So just the other day a friend of mine called me a serial hobbyist, and even though he doesn’t know me that well, he’s right. To counter this accusation I am surrendering several hobbies — at least for now… Guitar playing – I haven’t learned a new song for over…

This is the best explanation I have ever seen that deals with the balance testers must strike between scripted and exploratory testing: “To the extent that the next test we do is influenced by the result of the last test we did, we are doing exploratory testing. We become more…

Grig Gheorghiu presented at PyCon and then blogged about what makes software more testable? Here it is, shamelessly borrowed from his blog: I mentioned a list put together by Michael Bolton, and summarized/enhanced by Adam Goucher in this blog post. Recommended reading, both for developers who want to add testing…