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Robot Framework Test Automation

By : Sumit Bisht
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Robot Framework Test Automation

By: Sumit Bisht

Overview of this book

Testing has traditionally been a part of software development, and has always involved a lot of manual effort. It can be automated with Robot Framework, which offers numerous benefits from cost saving to increased quality assurance in the software delivery. This book will help you to start designing test suites and Automated Acceptance Tests. Helping you to get started with automating acceptance tests, this book will provide a detailed overview of acceptance test management practices and principles. You will also be introduced to advanced techniques that you can use to customize the test suite, along with helpful tips and tricks to extend and leverage it in a wide variety of scenarios. Starting with a detailed explanation of the need for automated acceptance test driven development, this guide will help you with an empty test project creation and execution for proof of concept, and validation of installation. This book will also cover the Robot Framework in detail, and will help you test desktop applications using Java Swing. You will gain an in-depth knowledge of tricky activities, such as setting up a test environment and using it with Selenium. You will also learn about other popular libraries, and how to test network protocols, web services, and databases. This book will cover the entire Robot Framework with real- world practical material to make its content informative and interesting. By the end of this book you will be able to write acceptance tests for desktop and web applications, as well as know how to extend acceptance testing in other scenarios that are commonly devoid of tests, and present the results appropriately.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Internal re-use


As mentioned earlier, repetition within the single test constitutes test re-use internally. Note that the data, if any, involved in different instances of the iterations might come from outside, but the repetition only occurs within the test action.

Loops and flow control

Having gained a good background of the syntax of writing a test, it is time to move on to the most common and convenient way of iteration, that is, a loop. Robot Framework solves this problem through the use of Python styled for loops, but that's easily understandable for the uninitiated as well.

It follows a straightforward syntax, the loop is started with FOR which is a special keyword. This is followed with a variable that is present within the loop. This variable is followed by a mandatory IN statement. This is followed by the variable or a collection over which the for loop is to run. Like Python loops, the subsequent statements are indented by a single space. As soon as the indentation stops, it is assumed...