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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)

Automation and agile


The agile manifesto places tremendous importance on usable code over conventional documents. It encourages practices such as extreme programming, which is a type of agile software development practice that improves software quality and makes the software development more responsive to the ever changing customer requirements. Amongst other important tenets of this practice is the automated acceptance testing. An acceptance test is simply some code that can be run and captures at its heart some aspect of the functionality of the system. The idea is that both the developer and the stakeholder collaborate on writing this test together, to capture the requirements in the code, which when passed, forms some kind of seal of approval. These are distinct from unit and integration tests as they are largely written by the developer, and for the developer. They help them emerge, validate design, and protect against errors. Acceptance tests are written by the stakeholder and the...