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Rapids Software Testing

Posted on 02. Jul, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

As some of you know, I’m in the process of creating an Exploratory Testing workshop. It’s been a bit of a wild adventure, but hey, I’m clinging tightly to my oars as I hurtle down the rapids of ET adventure.

Have you ever been white water rafting? I have, and here’s a tip, don’t bother going [...]

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reinventing the wheel

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

I liken my experience of creating an Exploratory Testing workshop as similar to recreating the wheel. It would be easy to copy someone else’s version of a wheel, after all there are a lot of great wheels out there. Alternatively, I could create my own wheel.
But how do I do that? How do you improve [...]

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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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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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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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