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Check Python installation
python -V
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Install pip.
pip -V
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Install Robot Framework.
pip install robotframework
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Install Selenium Library.
pip install robotframework-seleniumlibrary
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Download and install VSCode VSCode.
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Install
Robot Framework Language Server
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Install Browser Drivers
pip install webdrivermanager
Test cases for a sample web site Demoblaze.
This project is developed to demontrate Web UI automation using Robot Framework and Selenium Library.
Here, there are 3 variables ${SMALL_RETRY_SCALE}
, ${MEDIUM_RETRY_SCALE}
and ${LARGE_RETRY_SCALE}
for retrying the keywords when they are failing. Each variable has assigned with the number of retries. Automation engineers are advised to use ${SMALL_RETRY_SCALE}
as the default number of retries for the keywords. If there are big delays in some scenarios, you can use other variables ${MEDIUM_RETRY_SCALE}
and ${LARGE_RETRY_SCALE}
. You can find the examples for this in object-repository/page-objects
directory.
Test cases are in test-cases
directory and cover login functionality.
|- rbf-demo/ // Home folder for robot selenium UI automation project
|- configs/ApplicationVariables.robot // Application common variables file
|- configs/BrowserDetails.robot // Test execution browser configurations
|- configs/EnvDetails.robot // Test execution environment configurations
|- configs/SeleniumConfigs.robot // Selenium configurations
|- object-repository/locators/*.robot // UI locators of the application
|- object-repository/page-objects/CommonPo.robot // Common keywords for the application
|- object-repository/page-objects/*.robot // Page object keywords of the application
|- test-cases/..../*.robot // Test cases of the application
|- results // Test results will be saving here
|- .gitignore // Excluded the unnecessary files in the repo
|- README.md // This file
Starting from Robot Framework 3.0, tests are executed from the command line
using the robot
script or by executing the robot
module directly
like python -m robot
or jython -m robot
.
The basic usage is giving a path to a test (or task) file or directory as an argument with possible command line options before the path
Run All Test Cases
python -m robot -v ENV:SIT -d results test-cases/
Run Test Cases tagged Smoke Test
python -m robot -v ENV:SIT -i Smoke -d results test-cases/LoginTest.robot
Run Test Cases tagged Regression Test
python -m robot -v ENV:SIT -i Regression -d results test-cases/LoginTest.robot
"-v" refers to the variables. To replace a declared value within the code, you can specify a variable name and value.
"-i" refers to the tags. To run only a selected group of tests, you may specify a tag name.
"-d" refers to the test results. The location to save the test results can be specified here.
Additionally there is rebot
tool for combining results and otherwise
post-processing outputs
rebot --name Example output1.xml output2.xml
Run robot --help
and rebot --help
for more information about the command
line usage. For a complete reference manual see Robot Framework User Guide.