Maverick Tester – software tester

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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Changing the Goal Posts

Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I got a chance to watch some Gaelic Football recently as my two sons have started playing hurling and gaelic football.  Hurling is a fairly ferocious sport where everyone goes for the ball with hands and sticks. Gaelic Football gives the appearance of being a far kinder sport. However, the Australian version (aka Aussie Rules), [...]

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Test Tools for Covert Operations

Posted on 24. Sep, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I have one of my clients to thank for this tip.
I was performing some software testing recently on a product that had both a software and hardware element to it. The unique setup of the laptop, and  peripheral equipment meant I that there was only one test environment available.  I was fortunate not to live [...]

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In search of the ultimate bug tracking tool

Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

As many of you know, I’ve been on the hunt for a bug tracking tool for a while now and I’m glad to say the hunt is over.

I needed this bug tracking tool to meet some key criteria.
1) It had to be easy to install. Startups don’t always have a reputation of up front planning [...]

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Software Test Reports for Startups

Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

My test reports have deviated a lot since the early days of testing.
Nowadays, first and foremost I provide an opinion of the software. I make sure I highlight both positives and negatives that I see in the product.
Naturally, I provide a list of bugs I find, but I also provide a list of suggestions on [...]

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