Maverick Tester – software tester

It’s time to grow up and ditch the security blanket

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

One of the hardest parts of working as a software tester is keeping on top of new technologies, techniques in testing and development and software testing tools.  I can sometimes feel quite intimidated at the amount of information that I need to absorb in order to keep on top of the game.

Gavin Davies writes about [...]

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Is it Nerdy to Test on the weekend?

Posted on 17. Jan, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I’m talking about the European Weekend Tester Sessions that have just started up.
This was an entirely different kind of testing. The kids were screaming and running in and out of the house as I sat down on my computer on a beautiful and warm Saturday afternoon to join in with a group of people loosely [...]

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Back To Basics: Automated Testing

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

Automating parts of testing has always existed since people have tested software. In my early days of testing the concept of separating testing into manual and automated testing never really existed. Well not where I worked anyhow. We tested, and sometimes we used tools to help us test.
In conformance testing we used protocol analysers and [...]

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Always look on the bright side of life..

Posted on 08. Jan, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

And what better way, than to download the new Tester Types E-Book.
Its a light hearted look at some of the types of testers out there and I guess we could all do with a bit of a laugh now and then.
I big hearty thanks to Rob Lambert and Rosie Sherry for writing and putting this [...]

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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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