Heleen Van Grootven | Activities
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In this week's episode of This Week in Quality, we talked about grief. Grief may be a strange topic to talk about in technology, but I think it's an important one. Much of the industry is shifting....
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Porridge caring: Finding joy in a shifting industry - Ep 140
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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Porridge caring: Finding joy in a shifting industry - Ep 140
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Thanks for joining the TWiQ stage and sharing your story. 🤩
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Porridge caring: Finding joy in a shifting industry - Ep 140
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A thoughtful, vulnerable episode about grief, identity, AI, writing, and the emotional cost of trying to influence quality in organisations that don’t always listen.
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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Heleen, thank you for joining the stage today! I completely agree with you and Oleksandar that much of our joy is being taken away. It's good to reflect on that, take the time to grieve, and figure out how to move forward. If you'd ever like to take, I'm available if you need it.
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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This is the first time we've had six people with cameras on on the TWiQ stage. Woop! Woop! 🎉Good humans being open and honest about things. Thank you, Judy, for leading the way. 🤩
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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It's good to celebrate a milestone
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This is the first time we've had six people with cameras on on the TWiQ stage. Woop! Woop! 🎉Good humans being open and honest about things. Thank you, Judy, for leading the way. 🤩
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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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*Generative AI is experimental*
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Learn how to evaluate LLM quality and limitations using a range of testing techniques, from unit and regression testing to bias, adversarial and explainability testing.
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A practical introduction to testing LLMs
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A practical introduction to testing LLMs
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What would change if the work you are proudest of was actually seen?
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Stop waiting to be noticed
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Stop waiting to be noticed
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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 :) 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.
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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