Not having email access for most of a morning was good for me. I did a little office tidying, got caught up on some blog reading, and finally got around to a task I promised to do a long time ago.

When I moved older Ruminations from my qualitytree.com site to here some months ago, I skipped a few articles. Mostly I skipped things that were out of date or that I felt, in retrospect, were too lame to repost. But some of the posts were neither out of date nor lame, just difficult to move over.

One of those, “Flush Specific Stack Fiercely” involved an old Perl script that I just didn’t want to port over to the new site. Why would a blog post involve a Perl script? Because the Perl script illustrated how to generate random test scripts using nouns and verbs.

My colleague Ken Pugh asked me to put the article back up weeks ago. And I told him “soon.” My definition of “soon” may be questionable, but Ken finally got his wish. You can find the article, along with the random scenario generator re-implemented in JavaScript, here. Enjoy.