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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)

Standard libraries


The Robot Framework provides various keywords, which have been discussed so far. These are contained in the builtIn library and are available to any test by default. In addition to these, there are certain extra keywords that are part of the framework which are bundled as separate libraries and to use them, an explicit reference needs to be provided without any installation. These libraries are as follows:

  • Collections

  • Dialogs

  • Operating System

  • Process

  • Screenshot

  • String

  • Telnet

  • XML

Collections

This library uses the supplied lists and dictionaries from an external Python file and performs various operations, such as comparison and modification over it. Some keywords from the builtin library that operate over lists and dictionaries can also be used in conjunction with this library. For example, consider the following example where the Python file defines the following variables:

details = [1,'ssh', .034, 'main-repository']
user = {'name':'john doe', 'age': 21, 'account':'basic'}

These...