Maverick Tester – software tester

Get out your tin whistles

Posted on 18. Jun, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

At last after a year of wrangling, shuffling and even some pleading Michael Bolton in association with Testing Times is coming Dublin to give his wonderful Rapid Software Testing Course.
Not that Michael needed persuading to come. He jumped at the opportunity. Mostly because he loves giving this course and helping testers well, develop sense. But [...]

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Blasting off to CAST 2010

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

It’s my first outing to CAST this year.
CAST has been on my wish list for a couple of years now, but with moving countries, raising kids, and earning a living I’ve found it hard to make it. This year I decided no more excuses, it was time to go.
As well as wanting [...]

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Bizcamp Talk

Posted on 30. May, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I gave a talk at Bizcamp this year on how to get the most out of your software testing.
This was an interesting challenge as the I wasn’t speaking to software testers but developers. How could I help developers and small companies test better?
I decided to go down the path of identifying typical traps that testers [...]

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Are you a Buccaneer Parrot?

Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I’ve had a couple of ‘epiphanies’ this morning and consequently have that weird floaty, happy/anxious feeling that I get at moments like this.
I didn’t go to StarEast but I, along with countless other software testers have been watching the virtual show through twitter.
Some of it I let go, but a couple of links I’ve clicked [...]

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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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