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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 the web applications


Today, most of the commonly used software in use are present on the Web as it has become the common medium to interact with huge amount of users worldwide. Creation of a web-based solution is not only getting easier by the day (as new technologies are coming up and the old ones are getting matured, optimized, and obsolete), but the connectivity, ease of use, and sophistication for web application clients are also increasing. Thus, the web applications which interact with the world today have almost negligible lead time between their development and end user interaction. Acceptance testing thus becomes essential as changes in the software must be validated quickly to ensure basic correctness and existence of basic functionality before they go live into the production.

Selenium

Selenium is a web browser automation tool that provides recording and playback facilities. It can be used to create simple scripts that can automate actions on browser and web pages by using...