Learning Robot Framework : Introduction

Robot framework

• Generic test automation framework for acceptance testing
• Keyword Driven (standard, user defined)
• Can be extended with programming language libraries

Advantages

• Free
• Easy Syntax
• Mininum coding efforts
• Reporting, Logging
• Many standard, external libs, extensions with python programming
• Distributed structure

Install Robot Framework

Framework

pip install robotframework

Collecting robotframework
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Installing collected packages: robotframework
Successfully installed robotframework-4.0.3

Selenium library

pip install robotframework-seleniumlibrary

Collecting robotframework-seleniumlibrary
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Requirement already satisfied: robotframework>=3.1.2 in /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from robotframework-seleniumlibrary) (4.0.3)
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Collecting urllib3
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Installing collected packages: urllib3, selenium, robotframework-pythonlibcore, robotframework-seleniumlibrary
Successfully installed robotframework-pythonlibcore-3.0.0 robotframework-seleniumlibrary-5.1.3 selenium-3.141.0 urllib3-1.26.5

Browser driver

brew install chromedriver

Create test case

*** Settings ***
Library           SeleniumLibrary

*** Variables ***
${BROWSER}  Chrome
${URL}  https://ranking.rakuten.co.jp

*** Test Cases ***
Browser Start and Close
    Open Browser  ${URL}  ${BROWSER}
    Close Browser

Input Search Keyword
    Open Browser  ${URL}  ${BROWSER}
    Maximize Browser Window
    Enter Search Keyword  本
    # This kind of keyword is basically calling API connected with Selenium

*** Keywords ***
Enter Search Keyword
    [Arguments]  ${searchkeyword}
    Input Text  name: stx  ${searchkeyword}

Run the tests

robot start_close_browser.robot 

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Start Close Browser                                                           
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Browser Start and Close                                               | PASS |
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Input Search Keyword                                                  | PASS |
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Start Close Browser                                                   | PASS |
2 tests, 2 passed, 0 failed
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Output:  /Users/woohyeok.kim/Desktop/study/robotframework-basic/testcases/output.xml
Log:     /Users/woohyeok.kim/Desktop/study/robotframework-basic/testcases/log.html
Report:  /Users/woohyeok.kim/Desktop/study/robotframework-basic/testcases/report.html

Github

github.com