Maverick Tester – software tester

Bizcamp Talk

Posted on 30. May, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I gave a talk at Bizcamp this year on how to get the most out of your software testing.
This was an interesting challenge as the I wasn’t speaking to software testers but developers. How could I help developers and small companies test better?
I decided to go down the path of identifying typical traps that testers [...]

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Are you a Buccaneer Parrot?

Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I’ve had a couple of ‘epiphanies’ this morning and consequently have that weird floaty, happy/anxious feeling that I get at moments like this.
I didn’t go to StarEast but I, along with countless other software testers have been watching the virtual show through twitter.
Some of it I let go, but a couple of links I’ve clicked [...]

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When the dog bites, when the bee stings….

Posted on 28. Apr, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I wonder if the software testing community has a collective consciousness ? So often I go to write a post on something that I’ve been thinking about and wham, some great blogger has posted it before me, expressing in far more succinctly than I ever could.

So, really it came to no surprise that the wonderful [...]

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Testing a SaaS Platform

Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I thoroughly enjoyed the webinar yesterday by Joel Montvelisky on  Testing on the Cloud. Its of keen interest to many Irish Tech companies, so I was happy to organise on the behalf of SoftTest a webinar for its members. Softtest is the Irish Software Tester’s Special Interest Group.
I learned quite a bit from this webinar. [...]

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Mind mapping your testing strategy

Posted on 19. Apr, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I recently was asked to do a talk on software testing for a group of iPhone developers.  I decided to speak to them at a practical level and talk about how I approach software testing, as I wanted them to understand that there are different ways you can perform software testing other than resorting to [...]

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