2024-02-08 –, RoboCon
Ever had to restructure your project because it grew into an untameable monster? Or had to reorganise because more teams wanted to use your project? Or had to explain your tests to others? Or struggled how to setup a new RF project.
Over the years we came up and fine-tuned an architecture that works from the very beginning to large scale projects.
We will take you along the ride during the course of seven years where we implemented Robot Framework in different environments at different clients. During this period, we ran into many challenges of which we are sure most of the attendees have already ran, or will run into sooner or later.
Starting with the troubles of re-using and maintaining scripts when we started to grow our test automation efforts. Then stakeholders wanted to get a grip on what is tested and we needed to get them easily involved. In the mean time more teams found themselves interfacing with systems from other teams and wanting to use the test automation of those teams for test setups and end-to-end testing as was requested by stakeholders.
Since the first design of our architecture, we’ve used this as a basis for several clients. Despite the fact that every environment comes with its own challenges, we found the basis of the architecture very reliable and with some tweaking here and there it never seems to let us down. So, join us for the ride and see if we can inspire you to face your own challenges with our architecture.
In-Person
Lessons Learned:At the end of the talk, attendees will have seen a proven best practice architecture on how to structure resources in such a way that they can:
- easily maintain their project
- easily collaborate with stakeholders in creating and communicating tests
- easily collaborate across teams and projects within a larger organisation
We will show our solutions to common challenges that you will face when setting up the robot framework in a new environment and when scaling up to multiple applications and/or teams.
Describe your intended audience:Since it is an architecture that is useful on small scale to large scale projects, everyone can benefit from the good practices we used.
Is this suitable for ..?:Beginner RF user, Intermediate RF user, Advanced RF user
Guido Demmenie is a senior consultant at Enqore in The Netherlands. He started his testing career 13 years ago in test management and moved into test automation 7 years ago.
He implemented robot framework at several clients and made existing frameworks future proof. He also is an advocate of readable and understandable code.
I've been a testconsultant quite some time now and during that period I've helpt companies to get a grip on the quality of there products. By combining and aligning both process and technique I strive to make get the most out of the effort that people put into there quality activities.
Next to being a hands-on consultant, I love to educate people in the wonders of the testing-world. Whether it's a test automation tool, something about the testing process or just on-the-job coaching, I really get a kick out off helping my quality colleagues getting better in what they do.