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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.

Changing the Goal Posts

Changing the Goal Posts

I got a chance to watch some Gaelic Football recently as my two sons have started playing hurling and gaelic football. Hurling is a fairly ferocious sport where everyone goes for the ball with hands and sticks. Gaelic Football gives the appearance of being a far kinder sport. However, the

Damn it all, it's just not cricket..or is it?

Damn it all, it's just not cricket..or is it?

After fifteen years of living in Australia, some things have rubbed off on me. One of the them is cricket. I have to confess I have spent many a sun drenched day watching the cricket whilst imbibing the odd beverage here and there. One thing that I have noticed in

The Irish post - QTT now published

The Irish post - QTT now published

Some people asked me to let them know when my first post on QTT is up. Well its up now. You can find the post here Quick Testing Tip By Anne-Marie Charrett [https://dailytestingtip.blogspot.com/] I hope you enjoy it. Anne-Marie

Softtest Talk on Automated Testing in Agile Environment

Softtest Ireland [http://www.softtest.ie/] does a great job of holding free talks for software testers in Ireland. They held a talk yesterday on the following: Automated Testing & Development in an Agile Environment The two speakers were: Sebastien Lambla [http://serialseb.blogspot.com/]from CaffeineIT is a “developer

How many 70's references can you pick up?

How many 70's references can you pick up?

OK, I’m really not one to get into bragging, but I just can’t help tell you all about this one, because I am so excited!‌‌I’ve been asked to be a weekly contributor to QuickTestingTips.com [https://dailytestingtip.blogspot.com/] (QTT to those in the know). I

Holding the cat by the tail

Holding the cat by the tail

I thought Jack Margo’s interview by UTest [http://blog.utest.com/testing-the-limits-with-jack-margo-svp-of-developer-shed-part-1/2009/09/] was very interesting. What caught my eye was the following statement: > The days of specialists are mostly killed from the recession…you have to be flexible and know multiple disciplines to exist in today’

Test Tools for Covert Operations

I have one of my clients to thank for this tip. I was performing some software testing recently on a product that had both a software and hardware element to it. The unique setup of the laptop, and peripheral equipment meant I that there was only one test environment available.