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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.

The pain...the pain

The pain...the pain

I’m currently experiencing a boundary test. The test is…how much toothache can I tolerate before resorting to as massive overdose of painkillers? I know, I can feel you all wincing in empathy, even if you’ve never experienced toothache, almost everyone can empathise with the pain. But…….. there

Rapids Software Testing

As some of you know, I’m in the process of creating an Exploratory Testing workshop. It’s been a bit of a wild adventure, but hey, I’m clinging tightly to my oars as I hurtle down the rapids of ET adventure. Have you ever been white water rafting?

Exploring new Territory

Exploring new Territory

I learned something really important about myself today. What all started it off was a discussion I was having with James Bach on Exploratory Workshops. (You may remember that I blogged about designing an ET workshop recently – well James offered to help out and I wisely accepted his offer) One

reinventing the wheel

reinventing the wheel

I liken my experience of creating an Exploratory Testing workshop as similar to recreating the wheel. It would be easy to copy someone else’s version of a wheel, after all there are a lot of great wheels out there. Alternatively, I could create my own wheel. But how do

Get out your tin whistles

At last after a year of wrangling, shuffling and even some pleading Michael Bolton in association with Testing Times is coming Dublin to give his wonderful Rapid Software Testing Course. Not that Michael needed persuading to come. He jumped at the opportunity. Mostly because he loves giving this course and

Blasting off to CAST 2010

Blasting off to CAST 2010

It’s my first outing to CAST this year. CAST has been on my wish list for a couple of years now, but with moving countries, raising kids, and earning a living I’ve found it hard to make it. This year I decided no more excuses, it was time

Bizcamp Talk

Bizcamp Talk

I gave a talk at Bizcamp this year on how to get the most out of your software testing. This was an interesting challenge as the I wasn’t speaking to software testers but developers. How could I help developers and small companies test better? I decided to go down