TestProject

Learning Web Automation using Robot Framework (Selenium with Python) as part of my placement.

Topics I Have Covered

• Handling input boxes
• Selecting & unselecting radio buttons
• Checking & unchecking check boxes
• Selecting options from drop down & list menus
• Waits & timeouts
• Closing single and multiple browsers
• Handling alerts (JavaScript)
• Capturing element & full page screenshots
• Performing mouse operations
• Scrolling page using JavaScript executor
• Handle tabbed & browser windows
• User defined keywords & resource files
• Scrolling page using JavaScript executor
• Working with For Loops
• Extracting link texts
• Handling web/HTML tables
• Data driven tests using scripts, Excel and CSV
• Grouping tests using tags
• POM design pattern
• Executing tests parallelly
• Headless browser testing

Pre-requisites

Installing Robot Framework

• Install the latest version of Python: https://www.python.org/
  • Ensure you tick the Add to PATH checkbox when downloading Python
• Install the latest version Robot Framework using pip install robotframework in CMD.
  • This does not upgrade automatically, so update using pip install --upgrade robotframework
• Verify both Python and Robot Framework installation by doing robot --version and python --version in CMD.

Installing Selenium Library and Drivers

• To run web automation testing in Robot Framework you need to install we testing library called Selenium Library which uses the Selenium tool internally.
  • Install Selenium Library using pip install robotframework-seleniumlibrary
• After installing the library you will also need to install the browser and OS specific browser drivers for the browsers you want to test.
  • For TestProject I used Edge, so downloaded the Edge driver from the website.
  • https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/
  • Make sure to add the driver to the Python Scripts folder to run the web automation tests.

Other Pre-requisites

• You will need to install other packages to efficiently run all the tests in TestProject.
  • Robot Framework Data Driver pip install robotframework-datadriver - To run data driven tests
    • Robot Framework Pabot pip install robotframework-pabot
      • To run tests parallelly

How to run tests sequentially

• Executes all the tests robot -d Results TestCases\ robot -d Results TestCases\*.robot

• Executes tests which contain the first three letters robot -d Results TestCases\Reg*.robot

• Executes tests which contain the tags specified robot -d Results -i Smoke TestCases\*.robot

How to run tests parallelly

• Executes tests parallelly Pre-req: install robotframework-pabot in CMD pabot --processes 2 TestCase\*.robot

• Executes test parallelly but saves the results in the Results folder pabot --processes 2 --outputdir Results TestCase\*.robot

• Executes tests parallelly but without opening the project on your IDE/text editor

  • Create a batch file - run.bat
    • In run.bat specify the path C:\Users\admin\xxxxxx\xxxxxx\TestProject pabot --processes 2 --outputdir Results TestCases\*.robot
    • Run the CMD script by double clicking the icon in directory
    • Add @echo off in batch file to only show the results of the tests

Note to Self

• Ensure to change to the correct path in run.bat

Sources

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUDwpEzHYYLsCHiiihnwl3L0xPspL7BPG