Free: Playwright Evening @ ProRail

​This event is about Playwright and Open-source Testing. There is no sales, no marketing, no hiring, just technical talks for technical people.

​Agenda:

• ​17:30 - Doors open (feel free to come to ProRail)

• ​18:00 - Welcome by host

• ​18:05 - Short introduction by ProRail

• ​18:15 - Break stuff, learn by trial and (mostly) error - Nick Bloks from TeamTV

• ​18:45 - Free Dinner

• ​19:30 - Strangers Fixed My Code - by Matthijs Groen from Kabisa

• ​20:00 - Top 10 lessons learnt in adopting Playwright - Gareth Thomas from CGI/ProRail

• ​20:30 - Wrap-up and "mini live coding music show

• ​20:45 - Networking

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​Break stuff, learn by trial and (mostly) error

​The talk "Break stuff, learn by trial and (mostly) error" covers TeamTVs journey with Playwright, where breaking tests is a feature, not a bug. It shows how we moved from brittle selectors—like clicking the "4th button in the 2nd row"—to resilient ones. Setting up a fake API using local JSON files, making it easy to add new test cases.

​Speaker: Nick Bloks

​Role: HTML Painter - Front-End Developer/Tester

​Company: TeamTV

​Title: Strangers Fixed My Code

​Abstract: You publish a tool on GitHub, and one day a stranger fixes a bug you never knew existed. That's the magic of open source. In this talk I'll use real code from my own projects to show how I approach unit testing, how clean architecture makes code both testable and contribution-friendly, and how to get started with both yourself.

​Speaker: Matthijs Groen

​Role: Front end Developer

​Company: Kabisa

​Title: Top 10 lessons learnt in adopting Playwright

​Abstract: At ProRail there are teams that are using Playwright, however each team that picks it up ends up going through similar challenges. This talk is to accelerate adoption and share best practices.

​Speaker: Gareth Thomas

​Role: Tester

​Company: CGI/ProRail