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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.

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

Black and White and Red all over....

Black and White and Red all over....

There’s an add on telly about this guy who writes his book on a Remington typewriter and then the post office sends it and suddenly its in the window of a bookshop. It think the ad is for the Irish Post Office. Regardless, there is a moment when the

Will video kill the written bug?

Will video kill the written bug?

I’ve recently finished some remote testing using exploratory testing techniques. I decided to test out a couple of new (to me) techniques. The first one was using Session Tester to track my effort. The other was creating short videos of difficult to articulate bugs. First a bit about my

Challengers are you ready?

Challengers are you ready?

So far the Gladiators have stolen the show. ISTQB and the other warriors of testing certification have dominated the testing world. It’s not the only profession where this is happening. Network Engineers working now need Cisco certification in order to get jobs, regardless of their depth of knowledge. In

Dublin Software Testers Meetup

Dublin Software Testers Meetup

A reminder to anyone in Dublin or if you are in Dublin in Business, to come along to the Dublin Software Tester Meetup. Details are: Time: June 16, 2009 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm Location: the Library Bar, Central Hotel Street: Exchequer Street, City/Town: Dublin, Ireland Website or

I have a dream..a software testing dream

I have a dream..a software testing dream

Tester Tested [http://testertested.blogspot.com/2009/05/testing-experience-magazine-voice-of.html] wrote a post on the amount of ISTQB advertising (direct and indirect) a testing magazine had. His main point was, if its a Professional Magazine for all testers why does it lean to ISTQB all the time? Talk was made

In defense of the humble spreadsheet

In defense of the humble spreadsheet

I wrote a post a while ago on scoping out your tests [https://www.annemariecharrett.com/software-test-templates-scoping-out-your-tests/]. In it I described how I use Excel spreadsheets to scope out and estimate what I need to test.Judging by the comments I got back then, Excel spreadsheets in software testing have