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Articles and material related to software testing created by Anne-Marie Charrett. Includes exploratory testing, testing strategy, test design and test reporting

Walking the walk, but can you talk the talk?

Walking the walk, but can you talk the talk?

In my experience, selling testing is a lot harder than testing. Despite being Irish, “the gift of the gab” eludes me, often leaving me tongue tied and twisted when selling my wares. Its one of the reasons I have got myself a business mentor. His main focus has been for

Waxing and Waning during Exploratory Testing

Waxing and Waning during Exploratory Testing

I had this great plan for today where I would observe how I work throughout a day of exploratory testing. Unfortunately, the software is not quite ready for testing, so my plan has been slightly scuppered. Still I suppose this situation is often typical of any testing scenario, so I

Testing my backbone

Testing my backbone

I’m a nice person. Well, I like to think I’m a nice person anyhow, and some people tell me that’s true too. Especially my kids, they tell me I’m the best Mum in the world. Aw shucks! But sometimes, being nice creates problems because I want

So you want to be a software test consultant?

So you want to be a software test consultant?

Today, I’ m handing out some pointers that may or may not help you on your path to becoming a software test consultant. Some of these I’ve gained through bitter experience, others are more hindsight on things I ought to have done. So, without further ado, here are my

Back To Basics: Automated Testing

Back To Basics: Automated Testing

Automating parts of testing has always existed since people have tested software. In my early days of testing the concept of separating testing into manual and automated testing never really existed. Well not where I worked anyhow. We tested, and sometimes we used tools to help us test. In conformance

Always look on the bright side of life..

Always look on the bright side of life..

And what better way, than to download the new Tester Types E-Book. [http://thesocialtester.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/testertypes.pdf] Its a light hearted look at some of the types of testers out there and I guess we could all do with a bit of a laugh now

Four Stages of Testing Competence

Four Stages of Testing Competence

I have Chris Ashton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_stages_of_competence] to thank for this little piece of inspiration. He refers to levels of competence in a recent post of his. I was intrigued by the reference and went off to check out what the levels of competence