Heleen Van Grootven | Activities
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Back to the basics: Rethinking how we use AI in testing
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âWhen Amazon emails you saying your gifts wonât arrive until the 29thâ - Idea from Rahul Parwal
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When Amazon emails you saying your gifts wonât arrive until the 29th
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When Amazon emails you saying your gifts wonât arrive until the 29th
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Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream
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Share this guide with your team to spark better conversations, clearer expectations, and stronger collaboration
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Suddenly, a wild tester appeared! A developerâs guide to caring for software testers
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Suddenly, a wild tester appeared! A developerâs guide to caring for software testers
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99 Second Talks â Day 1 â TestBash Brighton / MoTaCon 2025
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after so much waiting and anticipating , I am returning to my career after a full time parenting break.
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TWIQ or treat: Ghostly bug stories - Ep 110
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Celebrate the spooky side of quality as community members share their funniest, scariest, and most unforgettable stories that turn everyday mishaps into lessons worth laughing about.
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""It works on my machine.""
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Start small and shift your mindset from assuring quality to assisting others in building it throughout the development process
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99 Second Talks â Day 1 â TestBash Brighton/MoTaCon 2025
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Celebrate the quality communityâs creativity and courage as folks share lessons, ideas, and stories in just 99 seconds.
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TWiQ: Testing in production - EP 107
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Celebrate the launch of This Week in Quality as the community tests a new platform, shares MoTaCon highlights, and reflects on how quality connects us all.
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Weâre grateful you joined the stage for This Week in Quality and shared your MoTaCon reflections with the community.
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I've listened to Demi hosting TWiQ a number of times and she has always had very interesting things to say. So I wasn't go to miss her talk on Starting Continuous Quality. It was brilliant, loads o...
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In defense of the em dash
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I may be ever-so-slightly upset that my beloved em dash has become a hallmark of AI-generated writingâŚ
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99-second talk: We know - We do - We care - Weâll be back!
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99-second talk: We know - We do - We care - Weâll be back!
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Yesterday I gave my first 99-second talk at my first MoTaCon on disaster management! When things have gone completely wrong, remember:- We know: Share the facts, without speculation but als...
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Yesterday I gave my first 99-second talk at my first MoTaCon on disaster management! When things have gone completely wrong, remember:- We know: Share the facts, without speculation but als...
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Awesome 99 second talk! Actionable, relatable, awesome đ
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"Wonderful initiative! The hardest part will be deciding which one to pick :D"
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We've been focusing on iterative improvements for TestBash.
This year we'll announce some bigger than normal changes, but in the meantime, I've been quite happy with the many smaller changes we'...
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MoT-NL is back â and what a comeback it was!
Yesterday, September 9th, we held the very first chapter meeting of Ministry of Testing Netherlands â and it felt like a long-lost friend finally retur...
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May your cake be sweet and your bugs be few.
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Thanks for choosing to attend TestBash. We look forward to seeing you there!Â
Heleen Van Grootven
Testing Engineer
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After a decade in communications, I switched to testingâturns 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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