Archive for May, 2008

AST Instructors’ Tutorial at CAST in Toronto

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

You’ve read about the Association for Software Testing’s free software testing courses. Now find out how you can get involved in teaching these for AST, for your company, or independently. This workshop will use presentations, lectures, and hands-on exercises to address the challenges of teaching online: Becky Fiedler, Scott Barber and I will host the Live! AST Instructors’ Orientation Course Jumpstart Tutorial On July 17, 2008, in conjunction with this year’s Conference of the AST (CAST).

To register for this Tutorial, go to https://www.123signup.com/register?id=tbzrz

To register for CAST (early registration ends June 1) go to http://www.cast2008.org/Registration

Sponsorship opportunities for CAST2008 still available

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

There are still sponsorship opportunities available for CAST08, the annual conference of the Association for Software Testing.The AST is a non-profit professional association with a mission of advancing the understanding and practice of software testing through conferences, LAWSTâ„¢ style peer workshops, publications, training courses, web sites, and other services.
This is an exciting year for CAST. [...]

Software error and the meltdown of US finances

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

“LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - A computer coding error led Moody’s Investors Service to assign incorrect triple-A ratings to a complex debt product that came to mark the peak of the credit boom, the Financial Times said on Wednesday. (see www.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2008/05/21/2008-05-21T075644Z_01_L21551923_RTRIDST_0_MOODYS-CPDOS.html. For more, see blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/2008/05/moodys_rating_bug_gives_credit.html and www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0c82561a-2697-11dd-9c95-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1 or just search for Moody’s software error.
This is [...]

Political activism

Monday, May 19th, 2008

As you’ve been able to see for a while, from his campaign picture on my blog, I support Barack Obama for U.S. president.
This blog isn’t the vehicle that I want to use for political discussion. Instructional theory, engineering practice, and the legal context (the evolution of the law of software quality) yes. Election-year politics, no.
If [...]