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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)

Remote test execution


The Robot Framework also supports the use of remote libraries, where a part of the test can be hosted as a server and can be used by other tests remotely. This is useful in centralizing a part of test at a single place and all the client tests can derive information based on that test itself.

It uses the XML-RPC protocol for the remote interaction and offers various capabilities for distributed testing, such as making different keywords available remotely that can be used to perform some operation over the remote server by different tests. Hence, a method in the remote library can be used to perform some task that can be called as a library keyword in the tests which provides re-usability of code across different tests.

To start off with the remote test, within the test, only the setting table needs to specify the location of the remote test:

Library  Remote  http://localhost:8567

On the server side, the following can be specified:

def strings_should_be_equal(self, str1...