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Deep Dive, DD3

Creating a Better Test Team: Mix, Match, Listen and Learn!

Iris Pinkster

Fieke de Vreede

11:15 - 12:45 CEST, Wednesday 17th June

Testers love testing. We love contributing to quality, working with different test tools and test techniques, showing risks and yes, we are also proud of the issues we find before go-live to prevent disasters.

So, in this testers are “the same”. But of course differences occur in testers’ backgrounds, such as personal background, project and test experience.

We believe that using these differences can make testing better. Whether you are part of a test team, a test chapter or guild or one of the testers in an Agile team.

During this Deep Dive we want to concentrate on these differences in test experience. One of the speakers has over 25 years’ experience in testing while the other speaker has less than 5 years’ experience in testing. Although we have never worked together at a project, during our conversations we have noticed various things, for example:

* Why don’t we think the same about the importance of a test process?
* How come we don’t apply test techniques on the same level?
* What is the reluctancy to using a test planning?

When digging deeper into these topics, we found out that some of these topics come from our difference in testing experience. And when explaining our viewpoint to each other, we understand each other’s viewpoints better and learn from each other.

During this Deep Dive we will use various exercises to:

* Show the attendees what the relationship between their test experience and the efficiency in their test team is.
* Make the attendees aware how they can listen to and learn from others
* Understand how a good mix and match of test experience can shape a better test team

So if you want to create a better test team, come to this Deep Dive: mix, match, listen and learn!

What you will learn

  1. Identify how your personal (testing) journey influences your team’s overall efficiency
  2. Actively listen to learn from others
  3. Learn to embrace differences, don’t fight them

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 90mins - 2 x 45min
  • Includes 15mins Q&A
  • Developing and nurturing essential soft skills
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Check out this video from Iris Pinkster and Fieke de Vreede to hear more about their talk on Creating a Better Test Team: Mix, Match, Listen and Learn!

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2026.

Session Speakers

Iris Pinkster

Professional Testing B.V., Netherlands

Iris Pinkster – O’Riordain is test manager / test advisor at Professional Testing and has experience in testing and test management since 1996. She co-developed Logica’s method for structured testing: TestFrame ®, their test management approach and TestGrip, the method on test policy and test organization.

She is co-author of the books published on these topics. She often speaks at (inter) national conferences. In 2007 she won the EuroSTAR award for “Best Tutorial”. In 2017 she was Program Chair for EuroSTAR. In 2019 she was Program Chair for Expo:QA in Madrid.

Session Co-Speaker

Fieke de Vreede

DUO, Netherlands

Fieke de Vreede works as a test engineer in a DevOps team at Dienst Uitvoering Onderwijs in the Netherlands. She mixes backend- and frontend testing as well as test automation and exploratory testing. Her current interests in testing are a11y and user experience and she is an advocate for women in IT. Before switching to testing she worked as an English teacher at a secondary school after her Master’s in English Language and Culture from the University of Groningen. Fieke lives in the north of the Netherlands with her husband and three kids and enjoys reading English novels, singing and crochet. 

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