Maverick Tester – software tester

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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Do your bugs only glow when its dark?

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

Have you ever been in the situation where no-one else can find and repeat the bugs you find? Perhaps you have a canny knack of finding unusual bugs, or maybe it’s time to improve and update how you write bug reports!

I do a lot of offsite exploratory testing in very aggressive timelines and consequently I [...]

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Is document a dirty word in Exploratory Testing?

Posted on 27. Jun, 2008 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

I want to perform exploratory testing, but do I really have to give up on all my documents? I went to a rapid software testing course to find out…

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