Maverick Tester – software tester

Dublin Software Testing Automation Morning

Posted on 20. Aug, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I went to the Softtest Software Testing User Group networking session last night. About 10 erstwhile software testers gathered together on a wet and windy night to discuss how to help software testers in Dublin.

We had some great discussions, a lot around automation tools, but also on the topic of up-skilling at little or no [...]

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Testing a SaaS Platform

Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I thoroughly enjoyed the webinar yesterday by Joel Montvelisky on  Testing on the Cloud. Its of keen interest to many Irish Tech companies, so I was happy to organise on the behalf of SoftTest a webinar for its members. Softtest is the Irish Software Tester’s Special Interest Group.
I learned quite a bit from this webinar. [...]

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Irish hosted webinar: Testing for the cloud

Posted on 14. Apr, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

As a member of the working committee for Softtest.ie, we have been investigating different ways to communicate with our software testing community.  One suggestion was to hold some webinars.I’ve been availing of my contacts in the online networking community to source some testers willing to discuss their experiences in this format.
I’m delighted to let you [...]

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Softtest Talk on Automated Testing in Agile Environment

Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

Softtest Ireland does a great job of holding free talks for software testers in Ireland. They held a talk yesterday on the following:
Automated Testing & Development in an Agile Environment
The two speakers were:
Sebastien Lambla from CaffeineIT is a “developer passionate about all things Agile” . He spoke about “In the life of a lean feature” [...]

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Holding the cat by the tail

Posted on 27. Sep, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I thought Jack Margo’s interview by UTest was very interesting. What caught my eye was the following statement:

The days of specialists are mostly killed from the recession…you have to be flexible and know multiple disciplines to exist in today’s dev environment.  In web development alone, you need to be proficient with XML, DHTML, JS, a [...]

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