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Anne-Marie Charrett

Anne-Marie Charrett

Sydney, Australia

Tech Leadership. Founder of Testing Times. Anne-Marie advocates a whole quality approach to modern engineering practises. Author Quality Coaching Book. Keynote Speaker Founder SpeakEasy Diversity.

Software Testing at University of Technology Sydney

Software Testing at University of Technology Sydney

I no longer teach this class. However, I do teach HSC students wanting to get into tech. See Catherine Karena from Test-Ed [https://www.test-ed.com.au/] for details on how you can get experience based training in the tech industry. I’m lecturing at the University of Technology this

The power of NO

The power of NO

I went and visited one of my clients yesterday. Its been a while since I helped them and I wanted to catch up on where they were at. As it turns out, this company has been going great guns, building their testing from zero to three testers. However, growth often

How I use modelling in software testing

How I use modelling in software testing

My testing can look like ‘fly by the seat of my pants” testing at times. There’s nothing more I like to do than grab a new product and jump straight into testing. No namby pamby reading of requirements by me! No, I want to get straight to the source

Courage in Exploratory Testing

Courage in Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing takes software testing skill. It also requires the tester be courageous. Let me explain. Exploratory testing is an approach, not a technique. Exploratory Testing is simultaneous learning, design and execution. What information we learn about a product, helps dictate our tests providing us with information that we can

Growing your own

Growing your own

So, I’m sitting here in my office on a beautiful Australian spring day. The sun is shining brightly, the air is slightly fresh sending wafts of scent from the spring flowers. Its a good time to be alive and its a good time to be thinking of growth and

You little beauty

You little beauty

We Aussies are a pretty laid back lot but a software testing event in Adelaide this November has a whole heap of software testers tapping their toes in anticipation for the first Australian Workshop on Software Testing (OZWST) to be held 8th & 9th November in Adelaide. I’m one

That coverage problem

That coverage problem

Thanks mostly to the BBST classes the AST run, I’ve come to understand and appreciate the impossibility of complete testing and the challenges surrounding ‘complete test coverage’. I find 100% testing coverage a pretty meaningless phrase. Imagine trying the calculate the amount of water in a swimming pool by