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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)

Summary


This chapter dealt with the philosophy and style of writing the tests. As the tests should be written with automation in mind, both the internal and external re-use through iteration and parameterization of test cases as well as getting data into the tests was covered as these are amongst the important things to consider while going forward with the automation. Next, all three different writing styles consisting of keyword, data, and behavior driven tests was covered followed with brief discussion of importance of behavior-driven development and comparison with other development tools currently in popular use. This chapter provides all the remaining portions of the Robot Framework library and you can now confidently begin writing tests that can be automated and provide testing for small to large enterprise software systems by using the wide variety of tools and support provided within the framework itself. In order to extend the capabilities of the framework and make it usable with...