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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)

Running web-based tests


In the example, a small website has been created using flask, which is a Python-based micro framework to create dynamic websites. To run the example, flask would be required at the local Python setup, which can be installed as:

pip install flask

After installing flask, traverse to the flaskApp directory via command line and run the demo website by running its main controller file:

python hello.py

This starts up the flask on localhost:5000, and displays the following window:

On entering wrong username/password an error is displayed on the same page. Here, the contents of the form are not persisted and only the presence of an error message indicates that a wrong username/password combination has been tried previously.

The following screenshot shows the error when a wrong username/password combination is tried:

The application redirects to the respective page if the login is successful, which also provides a confirmation text mentioning the successful login as well as provides...