Advantages of Robot Framework

  1. It is convenient to use and install.
  2. It is an open-source framework, anyone with or without programming experience can drive.
  3. It is suited to various operating systems and external libraries such as the Selenium library.
  4. The Robot framework supports behavior-driven, keyword-driven, and data-driven styles of building test cases.
  5. We can use any Robot Integrated Development Environment (RIDE) or any text editor to write the test cases.

Robot Framework in Python

In this article, we will see the robot framework and we will cover standard libraries and underlying functions, and going forward we will also cover test cases, keywords, variables,  and finally organizing the test cases.

Robot Framework is a common open-source automation framework for Acceptance Testing, Acceptance  Test-Driven Development (ATTD), and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). It uses a keyword-driven testing technology approach and the capabilities can be extended by testing libraries that can be implemented in Python or Java. 

Let’s talk about the Acceptance Technique in which the capability of the system is tested and the purpose of the Acceptance Technique is to evaluate the capabilities of the system in accordance with the business requirement.

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The architecture of the robot framework

The test data is simple to edit the table format when the robot framework is started. It executes the process data and generates logs and reports. The core framework does not know anything about the target under test and the intersection with it is handled by the libraries. Libraries can either directly use the application interface or use low-level testing tools as drivers. Robot Framework has a modular architecture that can be bundled and expanded with self-declared libraries. When execution begins, the framework parses the data before it. It then uses the keywords provided by the libraries to interact with the destination system. Libraries can intercommunicate orderly with the system or use other tools as drivers. Test or task execution starts from the command line. As an outcome, we get a report and log in HTML format as well as an XML output....

Installation

Step 1: Python Installation...

Standard Libraries in robot framework

There are a bunch of standard libraries in the robot framework. Let’s discuss one by one...

Built-in Tools

There are mainly four built-in tools that are used in robot framework that are:...

Test-Cases

The test cases in the robot framework are allowed to write in simple English language rather than automated test cases. It follows a Keyword Test driven approach that resonates with natural language in terms of action rather than expectations. Test cases are created from available keywords in test case table and keywords can be imported from test library or resource file or we can also create a keywords table for test case file....

Keywords

Test cases in Robot Framework are created with keywords coming from two sources....

Organizing Test Cases

Robot test cases are created in test case files, but we can organize them in directories that make up the test suite hierarchy. A collection of test cases is called a test suite. Each file containing test cases also forms a test suite. It is possible to organize test cases into a hierarchy by using directories, all of which form a higher-level test suite that derives their names from directory names....

Creating First Robot Test

Step 1: Check robot framework is installed...

Advantages of Robot Framework

It is convenient to use and install. It is an open-source framework, anyone with or without programming experience can drive. It is suited to various operating systems and external libraries such as the Selenium library. The Robot framework supports behavior-driven, keyword-driven, and data-driven styles of building test cases. We can use any Robot Integrated Development Environment (RIDE) or any text editor to write the test cases....

Disadvantages of Robot Framework

Scarcity of parallel test execution. Customizing HTML reports is not straightforward....

Limitations of Robot Framework

Robot lacks support for if-else, nested loops, which are required when the code gets complex....

Conclusion

The Robot Framework is an open-source test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development. The test cases in the robot framework are based on keywords written in a tabular format, which makes it clear and readable, and reveals true information about the intent of the test case. For example, to open a browser, the keyword used is “open browser”....