CHANGE YOUR MINDSET — THE KEY TO TEST AUTOMATION
Moving from manual to automation starts with rethinking tools, ROI, framework design and how the team works together.
Topic: automation-testing
13 articles in this topic.
AI IN QA WORKS. WHO PAYS THE TOKEN BILL?
Playwright MCP and AI agents look great in demos, but token cost, review, retries and operations decide whether a QA workflow has any ROI.
DATA-DRIVEN TESTING WITH ROBOT FRAMEWORK
Separate test data from test cases with Test Template and DataDriver, from CSV and Excel to JSON.
ERROR HANDLING AND DEBUGGING IN ROBOT FRAMEWORK
Read logs, distinguish failures from errors, and use BuiltIn keywords to catch, continue or deliberately stop tests.
RUNNING TESTS WITH ROBOT FRAMEWORK
Select tests, suites and tags from the command line; dry run, randomise, rerun failures and run in parallel with Pabot.
KEYWORDS IN ROBOT FRAMEWORK
Create user keywords, pass arguments, return values and hide implementation details so test cases read closer to business language.
SETTINGS IN ROBOT FRAMEWORK
Documentation, tags, templates, timeouts and the settings commonly used at suite, test-case and keyword level.
VARIABLES IN ROBOT FRAMEWORK
Scalar, list and dictionary variables, scope and precedence in Robot Framework, with runnable examples.
YOUR FIRST TEST CASE WITH ROBOT FRAMEWORK
The .robot file structure, calling keywords and running a first test case with SeleniumLibrary.
INSTALLING ROBOT FRAMEWORK
Install Python, Robot Framework, SeleniumLibrary and the VS Code extension before writing your first test.
LIBRARY, RESOURCE AND VARIABLE FILE
Three ways to share keywords and data in Robot Framework, and the right scope for each import.
SETUP AND TEARDOWN IN ROBOT FRAMEWORK
When Test Setup, Test Teardown, Suite Setup and Suite Teardown run, their scope, and the easy places to get confused.
WHAT IS ROBOT FRAMEWORK?
How Robot Framework approaches keyword-driven automation testing, and which parts the framework actually provides.
