2022-05-19 –, Main Hall
A Retrospective over the last year of Robot Framework and its Community.
In this keynote we are going to take a look at what's happened since RoboCon 2021. Pekka will give a run through of the new features within Robot Framework 5.0 and beyond. René will give an update on the Robot Framework Foundation and the plans for the upcoming year. Finally Ed will talk about the status of our awesome community and the role everyone can play.
Ed Manlove is a Robot Framework community member and leader who is dedicated to building up the community. Currently he is a member of the SeleniumLibrary team and helps lead the ecosystem of projects around web testing using Selenium. He has been a part of the Robot Framework community since 2011. Most recently Ed has been a Robot Framework Coach and Mentor consulting with a few clients and creating targeted robot training courses for them. You can see his latest contributions on his GitHub profile.
René Rohner is a Senior Consultant for Testing Systems in Germany and Chairman of the board of Robot Framework Foundation.
He is member of the Core Team of Robot Framework Browser and author of Robot Framework DataDriver. He is trainer and coach for Keyword-Driven and Behavior-Driven Testing in multiple small and huge projects in Germany.
I started to work as a test engineer doing mainly test automation in the year 2000. Since then I have created test automation tools and frameworks using Java, Perl, shell scripts and nowadays mainly Python. Over the years I have also used a wide range of commercial and open source test tools, and most of the time had much better success with the latter.
I graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 2006, and wrote my Master's Thesis about large scale test automation frameworks. Especially the keyword-driven prototype that I created for the thesis was really successful, and I started working with a framework based on it in a customer project afterwards. In June 2008 this framework was open sourced as Robot Framework.
I learned about Agile software development for the first time in 2002 when studying software processes at the university. Unfortunately it took some years before I got into a real Agile project, but I have been lucky enough to avoid waterfalls since then. I have mostly experience from Scrum and since 2006 I have been able to call myself Certified ScrumMaster.
In addition to using open source tools, I have also followed many open source project closely and participated to them by submitting bug reports and answering questions on mailing lists. For Jython project I have contributed both bug reports and patches, and nowadays I am obviously highly involved with Robot Framework open source project.
Eliga Oy was founded on February 2007.