Maverick Tester – software tester

Walking the walk, but can you talk the talk?

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

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 me to understand my ‘product’ and [...]

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Waxing and Waning during Exploratory Testing

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

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 will still include it into [...]

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Testing my backbone

Posted on 16. Feb, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

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 people to be nice back to me too.
This can be [...]

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So you want to be a software test consultant?

Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

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 tips.
1) Dreams are not goals
Its easy to [...]

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It’s time to grow up and ditch the security blanket

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Anne-Marie Charrett.

One of the hardest parts of working as a software tester is keeping on top of new technologies, techniques in testing and development and software testing tools.  I can sometimes feel quite intimidated at the amount of information that I need to absorb in order to keep on top of the game.

Gavin Davies writes about [...]

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