Short introduction to Robot Framework

1. ROBOT FRAMEWORK +
SELENIUM2LIBRARY
Joonas Jauhiainen Senior Software Engineer
RedHat Software Developer Meetup 10.09.2014

2. BACKGROUND
● Robot Framework
– Generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and
acceptance test-driven development (ATDD)
● Selenium2Library
– Primarily for automating web applications for testing purposes
– Browser testing

3. REQUIREMENTS
● Python interpreter
– pip package manager
– Optional for plain python
● Jython
● Iron python
● Robot Framework
– pip install robotframework
● Selenium2Library
– pip install robotframework-selenium2library
● Browser
– e.g.
Firefox/Chrome/IE/PhantomJS

4. WHY ROBOT FRAMEWORK?
● Open source (Apache License 2.0)
● Syntax is human readable
● Custom keywords can be easily made
● Extensible with custom or premade libraries
– Tens of existing libraries

5. EXAMPLE ROBOT FOLDER STRUCTURE
└── robot Folder for Robot Framework files
├── testfile.robot Robot Framework test suite
├── resources Resources folder
│ ├── common-keywords.robot Useful keywords
│ ├── [resource].robot Other keywords. e.g. for another
standard library

6. RESOURCES YOU CAN USE
● Robot Framework standard libraries
● Keywords in Selenium2Library
● Custom python libraries
– Java and other languages also possible
● Use keywords in resource files
● Other testing libraries made for Robot Framework

7. EXAMPLE: SMOKE TEST
https://github.com/Atihinen/RobotFramework-Selenium2Library

8. QUESTIONS?

10. REFERENCES
● http://robotframework.org/
● https://code.google.com/p/robotframework/wiki/HowToWriteGoodTestCases
● http://robotframework.org/robotframework/#user-guide
● https://github.com/rtomac/robotframework-selenium2library
● https://github.com/Atihinen/RobotFramework-Selenium2Library