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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.

Dublin Software Testing Automation Morning

Dublin Software Testing Automation Morning

I went to the Softtest Software Testing User Group networking session last night. About 10 erstwhile software testers gathered together on a wet and windy night to discuss how to help software testers in Dublin. We had some great discussions, a lot around automation tools, but also on the topic

Personality Traits in Software Testing

Personality Traits in Software Testing

I have lots of little and major projects going on at the moment. One of them is to write a chapter for an up coming book on the cost of testing. My chapter is complete thankfully, but as I was researching my topic, I came across this article on Personality

Teaching or Learning?

Teaching or Learning?

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

The pain...the pain

The pain...the pain

I’m currently experiencing a boundary test. The test is…how much toothache can I tolerate before resorting to as massive overdose of painkillers? I know, I can feel you all wincing in empathy, even if you’ve never experienced toothache, almost everyone can empathise with the pain. But…….. there

Rapids Software Testing

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?

Exploring new Territory

Exploring new Territory

I learned something really important about myself today. What all started it off was a discussion I was having with James Bach on Exploratory Workshops. (You may remember that I blogged about designing an ET workshop recently – well James offered to help out and I wisely accepted his offer) One

reinventing the wheel

reinventing the wheel

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