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A major issue hits the production environment. While we want to know what happens next, we need to ask what should've happened before?
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Exploratory testing, risk-based thinking, benchmarking: the same approaches, aimed at a new kind of system
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Every AI evaluator is a tester at heart
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I watched a program, and someone said, 'think outside the box'. It is a common saying, and I'm willing to make an assumption that lots of you reading this will have heard of it. Generally, it means...
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In quality, there is no box to think outside
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Stop shaming yourself into doing more—it won't work
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On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later I’d done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...
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Heleen Van Grootven
Testing Engineer
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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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