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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

Courage in Exploratory Testing

Courage in Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing takes software testing skill. It also requires the tester be courageous. Let me explain. Exploratory testing is an approach, not a technique. Exploratory Testing is simultaneous learning, design and execution. What information we learn about a product, helps dictate our tests providing us with information that we can

Growing your own

Growing your own

So, I’m sitting here in my office on a beautiful Australian spring day. The sun is shining brightly, the air is slightly fresh sending wafts of scent from the spring flowers. Its a good time to be alive and its a good time to be thinking of growth and

That coverage problem

That coverage problem

Thanks mostly to the BBST classes the AST run, I’ve come to understand and appreciate the impossibility of complete testing and the challenges surrounding ‘complete test coverage’. I find 100% testing coverage a pretty meaningless phrase. Imagine trying the calculate the amount of water in a swimming pool by

Upcoming Software Testing Courses

I’m heading to CAST 2012 [http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/conference/cast-2012/] this year (July 16th – 18th) and so I’ll be in the San Jose/ San Francisco area if anyone is looking for an impromptu workshop on Exploratory Testing [https://testingtimes.com.au/services/academy] or Coaching Software Testers

I am the Queen of Defocus

I am the Queen of Defocus

I remember the day I earned the self acclaimed title of Queen of Defocus. I had been testing for about 3 years and had been hired as the *only* tester in an R&D lab of about thirty engineers. I also happened to be the only female engineer [http:

Training Testers

I’m having a complete blast at the moment adding the finishing touches to my upcoming workshops in Dublin,Belfast and London. The Dublin and Belfast Exploratory Workshops sold out in a couple of days but there are still some seats on the coaching testers workshop in London. [http://www.

Mary Mary Quite Contrary...

Mary Mary Quite Contrary...

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. Its an old english rhyme that goes eons back. In fact, its actual meaning is disputed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Mary,_Quite_Contrary] over time. Meaning