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Test Automation Conference Europe

Track Talk T7

Test Automation at Scale with Robot Framework

Sander van Beek

12:00 - 12:45, Tuesday 11th November CET

At Dutch Lotteries (Nederlandse Loterij) we use the same Robot Framework repository with 14 testers across 9 teams. Our approach can scale up further. Let’s peek behind the curtain at how we maintain quality across all test suites.

Building quality test automation at scale is hard, especially when many people of various skill levels are involved. Often, this results in clashing approaches, accidentally rebuilding existing functionality, bad code, and inconsistency.

At Dutch Lotteries (Nederlandse Loterij), we work in a single Robot Framework repository with 11 testers across 7 teams. Because of this, we too encountered the above issues. We found various ways of dealing with this:

* Test Automation Guild to raise skill levels
* Required reviews as a teaching tool
* Build well-documented and flexible shared functionality
* Structure the repository for clear scopes and flexibility
* Write organization-specific standards
* Make lint rules to enforce our standards

We’ll take a look at our approach so you can use our ideas to scale up your test automation.

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What you will Learn

  1. How to maintain test suite quality at scale.
  2. How to teach an organization to make good test automation.
  3. The importance of documentation in the right place.

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 30mins
  • 15mins Q&A
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Session Speaker

Sander van Beek

Bartosz ICT, Netherlands

I'm a technical tester that focuses on automation. To me, a test that's worth doing is also worth automating. I combine my technical expertise with the human and organizational sides of testing. Technical solutions are great, but the bigger challenge is making people use them at scale. I think it's fun to create something new. I think complexity is fun and more complexity is more fun. I use my programming skills to tame complexity.

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