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Fiona Charles

Quality Intelligence Inc.

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Fiona Charles teaches organizations to match their software testing to their business risks and opportunities. With thirty years experience in software development and integration projects, she has managed testing and consulted on testing on many projects for clients in retail, banking, financial services, health care, and telecommunications. Throughout her career Fiona has advocated, designed, implemented, and taught pragmatic and humane practices to deliver software worth having—in even the most difficult project circumstances. Her articles on testing and test management appear frequently in Better Software Magazine and on StickyMinds.com. She edited The Gift of Time, and is co-founder and host of the Toronto Workshop on Software Testing.

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Session 202: Strategies for a Successful Systems Integration Test

Friday March 16th 2012 7am 1 0 Comments Software Test Professionals Conference Testing Strategy

STPCon Spring 2012 - New Orleans - Session Recorded on Tuesday, 11:00am - 12:15pm - Fiona Charles

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Telling the Testing Story

Wednesday December 14th 2011 11am 5 0 Comments Metrics

The team is testing intensively and your Rate of Arrival chart shows the number of bugs logged rising in a curve. After a time it levels off, then swoops down, and finally drops to zero. Wahoo! You’re done and the system is ready to ship!

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Data-Driven Modeling Scenarios

Tuesday November 10th 2009 8am 1 2 Comments Test and QA Management Acceptance Software Testing User

To get a clear picture of how a system will perform, create a realistic framework built on real-world data.

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And Now, The Women!

Friday January 1st 2010 8am 1 3 Comments Editorial Software Testing

Guest editorial: Fiona Charles on the evolution of STP’s “women testers” issue and why this topic is critical to the industry

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