2026-03-05 –, RoboCon Online
Over the past year, RobotDashboard has evolved from a simple visualization tool into a mature open-source project. In this session, I’ll share lessons learned from building and maintaining this tool, highlight new features like custom database integrations, built-in server capabilities, customizable layouts, additional pages, and an improved interface and performance. I will also demonstrate how these improvements enable truly data-driven insights such as spotting flaky tests, identifying long-running suites, and detecting regressions earlier.
Over the past year, RobotDashboard has evolved from a simple visualization tool into a mature open-source project that helps teams turn Robot Framework test results into actionable insights. In this session, I will share lessons learned from building, maintaining, and growing RobotDashboard. This includes challenges faced when supporting multiple Robot Framework versions, incorporating community feedback, and deciding which features to implement and prioritize. These experiences offer valuable insights into maintaining an open-source project, balancing user needs with technical constraints, and ensuring long-term usability and adoption.
I will also highlight the new features that make RobotDashboard more powerful and flexible than ever. These include custom database integrations, which let teams store test results in a way that fits their infrastructure; built-in server capabilities, enabling real-time access to both the database and the dashboard; customizable layouts, allowing teams to tailor the dashboard to their needs; and an improved interface, providing faster and more intuitive navigation of complex test results.
The session will also show how these enhancements translate into deeper, data-driven testing insights. Attendees will see how RobotDashboard can help spot flaky tests, identify long-running suites, detect regressions earlier, and analyze trends across multiple test runs. By combining historical data with the new features, teams can move from simply reporting test outcomes to understanding patterns and making better testing decisions.
Through practical demonstrations, real-world examples, and lessons learned from maintaining an open-source tool, this talk will provide attendees with both inspiration and actionable takeaways for improving their testing workflows. You will leave with a clear understanding of how to extract more value from your test results using RobotDashboard.
Dashboard, Insights, Analysis, Open-Source, Maintainer
Is this suitable for ..?: Beginner RF User Describe your intended audience:Every Robot Framework user can apply the knowledge and insights from my talk.
Tim de Groot is a test automation engineer with over five years of experience, currently working at TestCoders in the Netherlands. He has extensive hands-on experience with multiple programming languages and testing tools, including Python, JavaScript, Java, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and Robot Framework. While he has worked with many tools, Robot Framework holds a special place in his work, both for its versatility in test automation and for its strong, supportive open-source community.
For the past 1.5 years, Tim has been developing and maintaining RobotDashboard, an open-source tool that transforms Robot Framework test results into actionable insights. Passionate about the Robot Framework ecosystem and open-source software, he actively engages with the community and encourages anyone with questions or ideas about Robot Framework or RobotDashboard to reach out via GitHub or the Robot Framework Slack!