Maverick Tester – software tester

Teaching or Learning?

Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

Do you have a focus when giving training?
Sometimes, in my eagerness to ‘teach’ I forget to focus on something important. I forget that the lesson is about the student not me. I become more more concerned in my ability to be able to teach effectively. I want the student to come away feeling they have learned [...]

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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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Software Testing Training of a different kind

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

Ever dreamed of being personally trained by Cem Kaner? How about Doug Hoffman? No? Ok, maybe Scott Barber is more your style?
Any tester would, but it would be expensive? I mean these guys would typically charge thousands for this kind of training. Besides, they’re all in the states, so airfare, accommodation.  Your company would never [...]

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Rediscover your inner tester

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

Linda Wilkinson in a recent post called on ‘Experts’ to come down off their ivory towers, and get back in touch with the rest of the ‘hoi polloi’.
It got me thinking about how in one way or another, we all have an Ivory Tower in testing which we can brag about. Your Ivory Tower (if [...]

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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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