Archive for 'insight'
Four Stages of Testing Competence
Posted on 11. Dec, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.
I have Chris Ashton to thank for this little piece of inspiration. He refers to levels of competence in a recent post of his. I was intrigued by the reference and went off to check out what the levels of competence are all about.
The “conscious competence” is a model that describes how we progress through [...]
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All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey..
Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.
It was my birthday recently, and I got a brand new Digital SLR as a present. Now my expertise on photography goes as far as knowing that DSLR stands for Digital SLR. Say no more. Having this camera though, now means I can’t blame bad photos on the equipment.
In Ireland at the moment, its the [...]
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Some days Scarlett, I just don’t give a damn…
Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.
It doesn’t happen all the time, but some days its just hard to be motivated and inspired. Today is one of those days.
Perhaps its because its a grey day, or that yesterday in Ireland was a public holiday and its hard to get motivated after a break, but today it’s hard to get the [...]
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Rediscover your inner tester
Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.
Linda Wilkinson in a recent post called on ‘Experts’ to come down off their ivory towers, and get back in touch with the rest of the ‘hoi polloi’.
It got me thinking about how in one way or another, we all have an Ivory Tower in testing which we can brag about. Your Ivory Tower (if [...]
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50 Beta Testers. Not enough, or better than most?
Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.
Two software testers talked about the Joe Stump story this week. One was Elizabeth Hendrickson and the other UTest. The two attitudes to the same story are very different.
Let me compare two of the views:
First Elizabeth Hendrickson
“Problem #2: Thinking that “50 Beta Testers” and “200 Unit Tests” Constitutes Exhaustive Testing
Having beta testers and unit tests [...]
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Peter: hi,
I would suggest that there is an advantage ...
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Anne-Marie Charrett: Brilliantly put and so much better when expressed ...
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James Christie: "A life worth living will take you out of your com...
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Thomas Ponnet: Great idea about the co-op for software testers, w...
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Anne-Marie Charrett: Yes, I agree with you Deepankar, this is a big iss...
