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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)

Approaches towards writing tests


There are various approaches involved in testing and it is often the different nature of various test writing styles that separates the tests from other forms of software development. Writing acceptance tests can either be done by using the standard and external library keywords directly as mentioned before, or by using some mechanism to simplify the text of tests and make them more readable from the perspective of a non-technical person. This is crucial in agile software development as the stakeholders are involved in the design of software early on that might not be technically inclined or requiring to understand the syntax of tests like a programmer. However, they can provide a vision of how an application is supposed to work or behave; their input and feedback are important.

The Robot Framework supports mainly three styles of writing tests. While the execution and output of the tests are not different, it is the nature of the test's syntax itself that...