External Testing

I've now been given the responsibility of organising external testing for the new virtual learning environment at work. Already I've been going around the site hundreds of times adding things to the "Snaglist" - a list of small bugs that I can annoy people with, like where monospace font is used unnecessarily, and spelling errors in the HTML. For someone as obsessed with language correctness as myself it's ideal. Speaking of that, and further to my thoughts a few days ago about common errors, I recently got an email about going through the site with a "fine toothcomb". Do many people comb their teeth?

The organisational part of the task entails finding out who out of the list of potential testers is not on holiday at the moment, and being paid to catch buses around Aberdeen and sit with them as they go through a checklist of features. Working out how to get around the university is a bit stressful in itself, as it's split handily into two pieces at opposite ends of the city. It seems that testing sheets need to be completed before we can decide who can test what, so I can't even do that yet.

Quite apart from that, it seems that no one's really been told that the site is changing - the only ones who seem to have been warned about this are the RGU students that I've told personally. It's definitely a change for the better, though - it seems far less cluttered than the one that's online at the moment, and it feels good to be part of something useful even if it seems to be going the same way as the junior honours project.