Archive for August, 2005

iPod Shuffle + Mp3 Lectures

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

Have you checked out the Teaching Company? They sell complete college courses on CD and DVD. I recently went nuts and purchased seven or eight of their titles.
I thought I would listen to them in the car, but then a colleague showed me his iPod Shuffle (1gb version). It’s perfect for listening to the lectures. [...]

How to Investigate Intermittent Problems

Friday, August 5th, 2005

The ability and the confidence to investigate an intermittent bug is one of the things that marks an excellent tester. The most engaging stories about testing I have heard have been stories about hunting a “white whale” sort of problem in an ocean of complexity. Recently, a thread on the SHAPE forum made me realized [...]