Maverick Tester – software tester

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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Walking the walk, but can you talk the talk?

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

In my experience, selling testing is a lot harder than testing. Despite being Irish, “the gift of the gab”  eludes me, often leaving me tongue tied and twisted when selling my wares.
Its one of the reasons I have got myself a business mentor.  His main focus has been for me to understand my ‘product’ and [...]

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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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