Archive for 'software testing process'

A scrum in Croke Park

Posted on 04. Mar, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

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I’m attending the SQS conference on Software Testing in Croke Park, Dublin.  I thought it was appropriate to go to an Agile Testing session involving Scrum amongst other techniques in the same hallowed ground where not to recently a game of Rugby was played out between England and Ireland.
As our trainer Mike Scott was English, [...]

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I’m glad I’m not a piece of software

Posted on 20. Oct, 2008 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

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I joke about my personal development lifecycle (PDLC) as my work in test management often requires consistency & repeatability in the form of a test process. In comparison my own PDLC is often very erratic and ill behaved. In fact its not really a typical lifecycle at all except perhaps that I was born and one day I will die.

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Celebrate your wins in software testing

Posted on 10. Jun, 2008 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

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Dont wait until someone ‘discovers’ how great your testing is or until you have proper metrics in place. Use whatever it takes to promote your work to your colleagues.

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Take the Test…

Posted on 25. Sep, 2007 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

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Want to review your software testing process? Here are some guidelines that I use to review a company’s test process.
Stakeholder support
Before examining software testing in detail, assess your financial and managerial support. Any good review exposes shortcomings and to act on these changes will require good managerial and financial support.
One way of getting the [...]

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