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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.

Get out your tin whistles

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

Blasting off to CAST 2010

Blasting off to CAST 2010

It’s my first outing to CAST this year. CAST has been on my wish list for a couple of years now, but with moving countries, raising kids, and earning a living I’ve found it hard to make it. This year I decided no more excuses, it was time

Bizcamp Talk

Bizcamp Talk

I gave a talk at Bizcamp this year on how to get the most out of your software testing. This was an interesting challenge as the I wasn’t speaking to software testers but developers. How could I help developers and small companies test better? I decided to go down

Are you a Buccaneer Parrot?

Are you a Buccaneer Parrot?

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

When the dog bites, when the bee stings....

When the dog bites, when the bee stings....

I wonder if the software testing community has a collective consciousness [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_consciousness] ? So often I go to write a post on something that I’ve been thinking about and wham, some great blogger has posted it before me, expressing in far more succinctly than

Testing a SaaS Platform

I thoroughly enjoyed the webinar yesterday by Joel Montvelisky [http://qablog.practitest.com/] on Testing on the Cloud. Its of keen interest to many Irish Tech companies, so I was happy to organise on the behalf of SoftTest a webinar for its members. Softtest [http://softtest.ie]is the Irish

Mind mapping your testing strategy

Mind mapping your testing strategy

I recently was asked to do a talk on software testing for a group of iPhone developers. I decided to speak to them at a practical level and talk about how I approach software testing, as I wanted them to understand that there are different ways you can perform software