Robot Framework 01- Enviornment Setup in Linux and Running Test Scripts

Robot Framework is a generic open source automation framework for acceptance testing, acceptance test driven development (ATDD), and robotic process automation (RPA). It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and it utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach. Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java, and users can create new higher-level keywords from existing ones using the same syntax that is used for creating test cases.

1. Installing Required Packages:

$ sudo apt-get install python3
$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip
$ sudo apt-get install python3-venv

2. Create Virtualenv and activate it:Virtualenv is a tool for creating isolated ‘virtual’ python environments.

$ python3 -m venv ./robot
$ source robot/bin/activate

3. Install Required Package through pip:

(robot)$ pip install --upgrade pip
(robot)$ pip install robotframework
(robot)$ pip install robotframework-seleniumlibrary
(robot)$ pip install selenium

4. Install Pycharm: open ubutu app store and install PyCharm CE

5. Install IntelliBot and Robot Framework Support plugin to Pycharm IDE

6. Select project interpreter from virtual enviornment

Press Ctrl+Alt+S in Pycharm it opens settings dialog then search from interpreter.

Select Virtual enviornment from path robot/bin/python3

7. Download and set Chromedriver/GeckoDriver

download chromedriver from https://chromedriver.chromium.org/

extract downloaded zip file and put chromedriver at robot/bin/Chromedriver location.

8. Writing Test Scripts:

00_Browser_Invoking.robot

*** Settings ***
Library  SeleniumLibrary     #importing selenium library


*** Variables ***
${Browser}  Chrome          #setting up browser to chrome
${URL}  http://www.google.com

*** Test Cases ***
Open and Close Browser      #Test case name
    Open Browser  ${URL}  ${Browser}
    Close Browser

Run this test scipt by:

robot 00_Browser_Invoking.robot

This Test generate Output,Logs and Report Automatically.

Test report:

9. Second Test Script

01_First_Test_Case.robot

*** Settings ***
Library  SeleniumLibrary


*** Variables ***
${Browser}  Chrome
${URL}  https://opensource-demo.orangehrmlive.com/


*** Test Cases ***
My First Test Case
    Open Browser  ${URL}  ${Browser}
    Maximize Browser Window
    Input Text  id:txtUsername  wrong
    Input Text  name:txtPassword  admin123
    Clear Element Text  id:txtUsername
    Input Text  id:txtUsername  Admin
    Click Button  xpath://input[@type='submit']
    Close Browser

Run this test scipt by:

robot 01_First_Test_Case.robot

Test Report:

10. Third Test Script:

02_Second_Test_Case.robot

*** Settings ***
Library  SeleniumLibrary


*** Variables ***
${Browser}  Chrome
${URL}  https://www.facebook.com/


*** Test Cases ***
My Second Test Case
    Open Browser  ${URL}  ${Browser}
    Maximize Browser Window

    Input Text  name:firstname  lokesh
    Input Text  xpath://input[@name='lastname']  sharma



    Input Text  xpath://input[@name='reg_email__']  lokesh@gmail.com
    Input Text  id:u_0_u  lokesh@gmail.com
    Input Text  xpath://input[@name='reg_passwd__']  1234567


    Select From List By Index  name:birthday_day  21
    Select From List By Value  id:month  10
    Select From List By Label  name:birthday_year  1994

    Select Radio Button  sex  2

    Click Button  name:websubmit

    Close Browser

Run this test scipt by:

robot 02_Second_Test_Case.robot

Test Report:

Conclusion

In this tutorial we successfully created setup for our robot test enviornment. You now have the tools needed to get started building robot test framework.