Book the date: 8.12.2022

Miikka Solmela is the Executive Director of the Robot Framework Foundation. He is enthusiastic about automation, community building and scaling up processes and business.

He will share how the Robot Framework Foundation develops, supports and funds the Robot Framework tool, ecosystem and community. Moreover, he will enlighten some of the benefits of our open source community as well as how to contribute or join the Foundation.

“Let’s get a new tool, it will solve our problem” - when I hear this I cringe. I love tools, but a lot of times as humans we tend to overengineer, oversolutionize, and overcomplicate our situations with too quick solutioning. Do we even understand the problem well enough?

As the head of quality, I often ask questions that may be uncomfortable: it’s much easier to try to add a band-aid on a wound than to reflect on how to prevent it altogether. However, it’s necessary. Do not despair, though, I have some good news! It’s… fairly simple.

In this talk, I’ll share what thoughts we could take from minimalism and apply them in the exciting world of tech. I’ll remind you of some useful techniques for better efficiency, and, hopefully, inspire you to simplify your work ways.

The GUI testing is a known topic, it has many solution on how to approach it… But mainly for web applications and mobile apps. Solutions for desktop apps are not that obvious. One of the solution is Ranorex, a commercial tool.

Thanks to integration of Ranorex with Robot Framework one can do more with Ranorex. Domain experts can write automated tests by themselves. The licenses can be used more efficiently. And that are only two examples.

For more and how we did the integration, how our solution evolved - join me in this talk.

Many times we have the impression that time is running out and we waste it doing small things or doing the same activities over and over again. Fixes for failing tests, analysis of report after nightly regression. The development of the test code, its modification is more challenging than we expected…

It doesn’t have to be that way though..

In this speech, I will show you the elements that we introduced to our project life, which helped us not to waste time and focus on what is really important.

Boring things that we need to do repetitively through the slow and cumbersome interfaces… Sounds familiar?

For the sake of your mental health - try to automate it as soon as possible!

On the real life example, I will describe to you, how I’ve managed to relieve myself from tedious gathering of Splunk’s performance charts using Robot Framework, Python and Selenium. All nicely fit in the Gitlab CI/CD pipelines.

Robot Framework is an industry standard and versatile tool… or is it?

How the tool is perceived by its community, and how its perceived by other specialist are often two completely different things.

There are people who love RF, and there are people who hate it. What are the arguments, and what their merits? Maybe we’d all be better off just using some other tool? And most importantly - what can we, as a community - learn from the public discourse to be able to defend the case for Robot Framework where it makes sense, and make informed choice where applying RF would be detrimental.

Do You want to be a speaker at our event? Do you have an interesting topic to discuss, or did you solve a curious case? What are you waiting for, submit a talk proposal!.