๐Ÿค– Robot Framework World Wide Workshop Wednesday is back โ€” 7 October!

4 full-day hands-on online workshops with world-class trainers, plus Wrobocon the day after. Two days of RF in one week ๐ŸŽ‰

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Spent years chasing flaky tests in CI/CD before it clicked: they're usually coupled to implementation that changes every sprint, not to the testing tool.

Test the user's flow, not the component internals. Refactor freely, the tests hold.

My Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: https://www.cypress.io/blog/cypress-ambassador-spotlight-vladimir-mikhalev

#Cypress #TestAutomation #DevOps

Cypress Ambassador Spotlight: Vladimir Mikhalev

What motivates you to be a Cypress Ambassador? As a Docker Captain, IBM Champion, AWS Community Builder, Snyk and Cypress Ambassador, and Field CTO at Valdemar.ai, I've spent years helping teams design CI/CD pipelines that are robust, scalable, and secure. One thing I've learned? Automated testing is non-negotiable, and Cypress has quickly become my go-to tool for end-to-end testing. It's modern, developer-friendly, and makes testing feel like less of a chore and more of a power move. What mo

I upgraded Cypress this week and got hit by a lot of TypeScript warnings. Turned out to be a type improvement in 15.17.0, with a fix that takes seconds once you know why it works.

I wrote a post about it on my blog https://www.bartvanherck.com/posts/2026/20260623/

#cypress #testautomation

Fixing Cypress alias warnings with template literals

Upgrading to Cypress 15.17.0 brought a wave of TypeScript warnings about alias strings across our test suite. The fix is a small but meaningful one-liner: swap string concatenation for template literals. This post explains why Cypress tightened its types, how TypeScript template literal types work, and how to silence the warnings for good.

Bart's Story

๐Ÿ“ฃ RoboCon 2027 CFP is open!

Share your Robot Framework story โ€” Helsinki + Online, 2027.

Deadline: 4 Oct ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ
Submit: robocon.io

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๐Ÿš€ RoboCon 2027 CFP is Open!

We're looking for talks, workshops, and tutorials for:

๐Ÿ“ Helsinki, 8โ€“12 March 2027
๐ŸŒ Online, 7โ€“9 April 2027

Got something to share with the Robot Framework community? We'd love to hear from you.

Know someone who should speak? Send them our way!

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Spoiler alert, my test was not flaky at all. I created a new post on something we found today in our team.

#softwaretesting #testautomation

https://www.bartvanherck.com/posts/2026/20260615/

Your test isn't flaky: Page 2 just stole data from page 1

Your test goes red, then green, then red again. You changed nothing. Before you blame the framework, read this. The culprit can be a missing sort tie-breaker that lets the database shuffle records differently on every page query.

Bart's Story

$10,000 โ†’ $22,000. 12 weeks of nights.

6 yrs as manual QA. Stuck. 12 wks with a senior SDET on Tutorac โ€” Playwright, CI/CD, real test architecture.

โ†’ SDET Lead at fintech. +2.2x salary.

โ†’ tutorac.com

#Tutorac #SDET #TestAutomation #1on1Tutor

This evening I had some inspiration and added an article on my blog.

#typescript #testautomation

https://www.bartvanherck.com/posts/2026/20260611/

The Factory Pattern in TypeScript

The factory pattern and the spread operator are a match made in TypeScript heaven. Learn how to write clean, composable object factories that keep your code sane, your tests readable, and your teammates from leaving passive-aggressive comments.

Bart's Story

Here are 9 automation testing practices that help teams ship faster, reduce maintenance, and improve release confidence. ๐Ÿš€

Which one has made the biggest difference for your team?

Read More: https://www.testrigtechnologies.com/top-10-best-practices-for-automation-testing/

#AutomationTesting #QA #TestAutomation #SoftwareTesting #AITesting #QualityEngineering