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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.

Softtest Talk on Automated Testing in Agile Environment

Softtest Ireland [http://www.softtest.ie/] does a great job of holding free talks for software testers in Ireland. They held a talk yesterday on the following: Automated Testing & Development in an Agile Environment The two speakers were: Sebastien Lambla [http://serialseb.blogspot.com/]from CaffeineIT is a “developer

How many 70's references can you pick up?

How many 70's references can you pick up?

OK, I’m really not one to get into bragging, but I just can’t help tell you all about this one, because I am so excited!‌‌I’ve been asked to be a weekly contributor to QuickTestingTips.com [https://dailytestingtip.blogspot.com/] (QTT to those in the know). I

Holding the cat by the tail

Holding the cat by the tail

I thought Jack Margo’s interview by UTest [http://blog.utest.com/testing-the-limits-with-jack-margo-svp-of-developer-shed-part-1/2009/09/] 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’

Test Tools for Covert Operations

I have one of my clients to thank for this tip. I was performing some software testing recently on a product that had both a software and hardware element to it. The unique setup of the laptop, and peripheral equipment meant I that there was only one test environment available.

It's all about the context

It's all about the context

Kem Caner in his post on what is context-driven testing [http://www.satisfice.com/kaner/?p=45] writes on the difference between context-driven and context-aware: “Similarly, some people create standards, like IEEE Standard 829 for test documentation, because they think that it is useful to have a standard to lay

In search of the ultimate bug tracking tool

In search of the ultimate bug tracking tool

As many of you know, I’ve been on the hunt for a bug tracking tool for a while now and I’m glad to say the hunt is over. I needed this bug tracking tool to meet some key criteria. 1) It had to be easy to install. Startups

A CIO's pain....a software tester's gain?

“In April, the CBA announced it would replace the traditional measurement of IT performance – the service level agreement – with customer feedback reports which impact employee remuneration directly.” so the IT news reports. As a result, CIO Michael Harte accepted a reduced paypacket following a June outage. The full article can