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Heleen Van Grootven
Testing Engineer
They/them - she/her
After a decade in communications, I switched to testing—turns out that I really like figuring out how things work and how they fit together. Always open to learning more and meeting new people!
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We have recreated the import screens users need to fill in for declaration in our test environment. Although I appreciate the devs wanting to make it as close to real as possible, I have to check t...
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Everytime I have to confirm the information is real and correct when filling in testdata
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Everytime I have to confirm the information is real and correct when filling in testdata
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This Week in Quality
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TWiQ episodes now sounds more cool when we see our hosts with cameras on and their entry reminds me of animations - Flying In from Left and Right :)Â Cool discussions about negative tests, happ...
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TWiQ - Episode 139 - Cameras On and Our Hosts flying in from Left and Right
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TWiQ - Episode 139 - Cameras On and Our Hosts flying in from Left and Right
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TWiQ - Episode 139 - Cameras On and Our Hosts flying in from Left and Right
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TWiQ - Episode 139 - Cameras On and Our Hosts flying in from Left and Right
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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Can you see me now?
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Most teams think they've handled dates. Most teams are wrong.
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The date and time cheat sheet for the whole team
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The date and time cheat sheet for the whole team
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Vibe coding, agentic engineering or coding, conversational programming, and others are terms for using AI (Artificial Intelligence, not actual intelligence) to create code, products and systems. Th...
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Prediction: AI will make accessibility worse
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Prediction: AI will make accessibility worse
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And hot take: Don't let AI take notes for you
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Stop studying, start learning.
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Stop studying, start learning.
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Can you see me now?
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In this talk, Callum talks about what pride is, its history and its importance.
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LGBTQIA+ Pride Month — Visibility matters: You are not alone
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LGBTQIA+ Pride Month — Visibility matters: You are not alone
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Check out our new chapter artwork above, just in time for our next event this Friday!
(Not registered for the event yet? Do it now here: MoT Berlin Chapter Event #50 (actually #60 🥳): Building Bett...
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Chapter achievement unlocked: MoT Berlin has a new chapter artwork!
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Chapter achievement unlocked: MoT Berlin has a new chapter artwork!
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Chapter achievement unlocked: MoT Berlin has a new chapter artwork!
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Chapter achievement unlocked: MoT Berlin has a new chapter artwork!
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Can you see me now?
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Can you see me now?
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Can you see me now?
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Can you see me now?
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Can you see me now?
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Can you see me now?
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Can you see me now?
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Today's This Week in Quality had the hosts with their cameras on for the very first time! ... And since I could see them, I was extremely convinced that they could see me as well. Cue lots of emoti...
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This Week in Quality
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"Excellent insight! The best way for me to retain anything has always been to write it out (preferably by hand). I can look back at my own notes from years ago and understand the structure, abbreviations, leaps of logic, ... , because it's always still ..."
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Why your own messy notes still beat a tidy AI summary
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Hot take: Don't let AI take notes for you
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Hot take: Don't let AI take notes for you
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Hot take: Don't let AI take notes for you
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Thanks for being the first editor on all my work 😉
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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Is empathy a nice extra, or the engine behind good quality work?
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Myth: The real work is technical, empathy is extra
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Myth: The real work is technical, empathy is extra
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