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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)

Higher order re-use


The tests can be repeated within the test suite through the creation and use of constructs of higher order that contain various test commands and at times even entire tests. This enables the tester to combine similar or equivalent user stories or use cases into a single test and provide different inputs depending upon the circumstances. Another significant advantage that test re-use offers is the overall clarity of the project. Tests if re-used have to be called from various places, thereby giving the benefits of DRY.

User keywords

As mentioned earlier, user keywords can be used to embed a part of test into a single custom keyword. These can be re-used and they can also specify arguments in their definition, which can be used to pass on test data parameters by the callers of these tests.

Test templates

Test templates are used to create components within a test that can accept different parameters at runtime. This is different from user keywords as the user keywords have to...