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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.

Paying Attention to Paying Attention to Detail

Paying Attention to Paying Attention to Detail

One question I often ask a tester in an interview is what they believe are the essential skills that differentiate a good tester from a great tester. One of the common replies is “Paying attention to detail”. But what does that really mean? Start with detail. What do you mean

Bobbing for Embedded Apples

Bobbing for Embedded Apples

How does having a software tester in a team impact quality?

How's your signal to noise ratio going?

How's your signal to noise ratio going?

It's not only engineers that need to deal with S/N (Signal to Noise Ratio). Test Managers have to deal with lots of noise, manage projects, deal with stakeholders, identify potential future risks, maintain test environments, hire testers, and meetings, meetings & meetings. And traditionally, when you sign

Hi, my name is Done and I'm conflicted

Hi, my name is Done and I'm conflicted

If there is ever one word that highlights the difference between a tester and a developer’s mindset it has to be the word done. Developers¹ tend think of done as a form of sign off. A story is done when the code is complete. For many developers, it’s

A Developer's Ode to a Tester

A Developer's Ode to a Tester

Oh tester why dost thou despair? The code is right of this we are aware! We verify. We know what we do know No need to doubt and think of all this woe! Instead be bright and bring us certainty, Let Done be Done, thus ends this homily!

Nobody — calls me — chicken

Nobody — calls me — chicken

One of the morals of the Back to The Future [http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Chicken] series is being able to walk away from a fight. It took three movies for Marty McFly to learn this self-control. Walking away from a twitter stormOne thing that the scriptwriters failed to predict

Take the 'Crappy Work' Litmus Test

Take the 'Crappy Work' Litmus Test

We’ve placed a ban on crappy work within my test team. From now on, we declare that the testing team will refuse to do crappy work. The challenge is in knowing how you're doing good work or crappy work? This is why I’ve created this simple