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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)

Testing through images


This section covers image-based testing, which is different from what has been covered so far. In image-based testing, the user interface is treated as a black box and no object internals of the applications are exposed.

Sikuli

Sikuli is a leading tool that performs automation through computer vision, that is, recognition of images on the screen. As a human being, we can distinguish an object's properties by looking at it, but this is not straightforward in case of computers as computers can only match binary or textual information. Thus, there is a need for computer vision or knowing if a given image is present on a larger screen or not. In simple sense, Sikuli uses the user-supplied screenshot images to perform action over various items and displays the generated script visually in the Sikuli IDE. Following is one such script to do a search:

As is evident from the image, the script does the following:

  • Check if the Chrome browser icon exists on the screen

  • Click on the...