How to setup UI Automation on Linux server :Robot Framework

I will be discussing here — how to setup your UI automation framework written in robot framework on Linux distribution (Amazon linux 2 in my case).

1. Install Python 3 ( robot framework test-cases are written in python and require python to be run)
2. Install Chrome browser and ChromeDriver

(i) Google-chrome

google-chrome - version

(ii) Chrome Driver-

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/123.0.6312.122/linux64/chromedriver-linux64.zip

(Replace driver version to one compatible with your chrome-browser)

unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv chromedriver_linux64/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

4. Verify installations

google-chrome --version
chromedriver --version

3. Robot Framework and SeleniumLibrary installation: Make sure that Robot Framework and SeleniumLibrary are installed in the environment. You can include these installations in the pipeline to ensure the correct versions are used.

4. Set Environment Path: Ensure that the PATH environment variable is correctly set for chromedriver, robot installations in .bashrc file

+ which chromedriver
/usr/local/bin/chromedriver
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

5. Create minimalistic Robot Framework test case

test_robot.py

*** Settings ***
Library    SeleniumLibrary
Suite Teardown    Close All Browsers

*** Test Cases ***
Open Google
    ${chrome_options}=    Evaluate    sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions()    sys, selenium.webdriver
    Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --headless
    Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --no-sandbox
    Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --disable-dev-shm-usage
    Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --disable-gpu
    Call Method    ${chrome_options}    add_argument    --disable-software-rasterizer
    Create Webdriver    Chrome    options=${chrome_options}
    Go To    https://www.google.com
    Maximize Browser Window
    [Teardown]    Close Browser

5. Run robot test-cases

robot test_robot.py