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Anne-Marie Charrett

Anne-Marie Charrett

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.

Speed Kills

Speed Kills

Some of my testers have become embedded on a newly formed agile team. Its been a roller coaster ride for sure. Lots of fun, thrills and a few scary points in time where I thought for certain we were not going to make it, or we were heading in the

Coaching your Test Team

Coaching your Test Team

I’ve implemented coaching within my test team. To me, this is a natural progression from the coaching work I’ve been doing on Skype. It's early days yet, but I can already see the power of this approach to upskilling testers in a team environment. I’ve

Recession Testing is the new Regression Testing

Recession Testing is the new Regression Testing

It's time to retire the idea of Regression Testing folks. Regression testing, at least the way its being performed today is typically a value free, wasteful exercise and falls into the category of “bad testing”. “Regression testing is any type of software testing that seeks to uncover software

Crossing the bridge over no-man's land

Crossing the bridge over no-man's land

Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom has a “moment of indecision” when halfway across a bridge he realises he’s been cornered by Mola Ram(the baddy) and his henchmen. He looks back and there’s a hoard of lusty savages baying for his blood, no luck there. He

On conferences and insomnia

On conferences and insomnia

For me, the sign of a good conference is insomnia the night after the conference. Its as if my brain is unable to let go the new ideas and discussions I’ve had with other testers. Ideas that haven’t had an opportunity to be digested and reflected upon and

An affidavit of sorts

The last three months I’ve worked specifically with the goal of my testers taking responsibility for their work. I’m a strong believer that each person is responsible for their own lives. I try to live by it and I expect others to do the same. It's

Coaching Space

When James Bach gave his keynote on “Cool new things” at CAST 2011, I suspected that our work on coaching might come up. What I wasn’t expecting was a break down of my work and the recognition of the work I had done. So thank you James. I’ve