2024-02-28 –, RoboConOnline
In our talk, we would like to review our project with you and visualise how we established a scalable test automation kit with Robot Framework in an insurance company with a heterogeneous application landscape. We report on the framework conditions, milestones and challenges to be considered.
Provinzial Versicherung AG is the second largest public insurance group in Germany. We gain our strength from the regional ties of our subsidiaries. For more than 300 years, we have been where our customers are. Today, more than five million private and corporate customers place their trust in us.
With over 6,500 employees, almost 1,000 of whom work in IT, Provinzial Versicherung AG is also a major IT employer.
The application landscape is historically highly networked and complex. The entire software development process, starting with the creation of requirements and ending with the release of tests, is carried out decentrally in the respective teams. For this reason, various automation solutions have become established in our group.
We were commissioned about two years ago to unify the test automation process and develop a test automation strategy. Our journey began with the evaluation of various test tools and the comparison of different approaches to test automation. One of the challenges for a test automation solution was that software tests should be able to be automated by a wide range of users, even without development knowledge. In our talk we would like to review our project with you and visualise how we created a scalable test automation kit with Robot Framework. Among other things, we made the courageous decision for an insurance company to use an open source tool. Joining the Foundation should reflect our belief in the Framework and our commitment to it. In the meantime, Robot Framework is used for testing in over 20 applications.
Beginner RF user, Intermediate RF user
Matthias Grabowsky works as a test automation specialist at Provinzial Versicherung AG in Münster, Germany. He is responsible for the central introduction of test automation with the Robot Framework.
Ivaylo Brüssow has been working in the field of test automation in various industries with different SUTs and technologies for more than 12 years. For the past three years, he has been responsible for test automation technology at Provinzial Versicherung AG. He works in the competence centre for test management and test automation, which is responsible for the provision and further development of the central automation framework, workflows and libraries. He focuses on test automation, test design, workflows and integration as well as consulting and support for test automation projects at Provinzial.