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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.

50 Beta Testers. Not enough, or better than most?

Two software testers talked about the Joe Stump story this week. One was Elizabeth Hendrickson and the other UTest. The two attitudes to the same story are very different. Let me compare two of the views: First Elisabeth Hendrickson [http://testobsessed.com/2009/09/01/not-exhaustively-tested/] “Problem #2: Thinking that

YouTrack, a new issue tracking tool

I noticed that there is a new bug tracking application on the scene. It’s called YouTrack [http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/] and describes it self as: “web-based, keyboard-centric issue tracker” and “The Fastest Bug and Issue Tracker” “Wow”! Sounds like just the tool for a Maverick Tester! I’ve

Software Testing Industry Benchmarks

There is a bit of a discussion on “industry norms” on the yahoo based software testing group run by James Bach and Cem Kaner. It’s about the problems with trying to compare your company’s software testing against industry norms. One of the comments made by James Bach was:

Straight up, no ice....

Straight up, no ice....

You know the way sometimes, a post, or even a comment on a post gets you thinking. A recent comment by Phil Kirkham on Georgia Motoc’s blog got my subconscious brain working overtime. So much to the point where I feel compelled to put finger to keyboard and write

Software Test Reports for Startups

My test reports have deviated a lot since the early days of testing. Nowadays, first and foremost I provide an opinion of the software. I make sure I highlight both positives and negatives that I see in the product. Naturally, I provide a list of bugs I find, but I

Hackers, Blogs and PC's.... Oh My!!!

What a week! My ‘problem’ antennas have been twitching this week. It started off with my blog and user access. ‘Hedosnorrenny’ had decided to become a contributor to my blog. Without me asking. There he (or she?) was, proudly displayed in my WordPress ‘users’. So, methinks, time to perform some

Do your bugs only glow when its dark?

Do your bugs only glow when its dark?

Have you ever been in the situation where no-one else can find and repeat the bugs you find? Perhaps you have a canny knack of finding unusual bugs, or maybe it’s time to improve and update how you write bug reports! I do a lot of offsite exploratory testing