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Clotho Testing Sessions 1&2

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Hey all,

Testing sessions were a mix between fun and some kind of crazy. I stayed up til about 5AM to prepare for the 1st testing session! Though I must admit, I’m normally up til about 3AM. Anyway, enjoy the visuals. I’ll be introducing my teammates along the way, and of course the software testers!

Left: Anne Van Devender, teammate. Right: Doug Densmore, advisor. We’re waiting for the testers, and it looks like we’re pretty excited to begin.

Left: Matthew L.E. Johnson, teammate. Middle: Anne. Right: Doug. I believe Matt’s starting up Clotho, and we’re all watching quietly.

Left: Matt. Right: Dirk VandePol, wetlab teammate. Dirk was the third tester of Clotho, and is a high school teacher, to my knowledge. Matt’s currently assisting him with the Clotho SequenceView.

Left: Doug, Right: Cici. Cici is one of the wetlab members as well. She’s a high school student, one of the only two on the wet team.

A bunch of people. Right now we’re gathering everyone’s final remarks from the very first testing session. Dr. Chris Anderson (leftmost) is explaining what he sees as the greatest asset behind Clotho, which is its eventual connectivity and seamlessness between different pre-existing tools.

The one and only picture I have so far posted of our second testing session. I was mostly busy this testing session, so I had less pictures to choose from. You can see we moved up to a conference room, as opposed to our student offices :).