Web Test Automation: Robot Framework vs Cypress vs Selenium

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SELENIUM-JAVA-JUNIT PROJECT

Requirements:

• Java JDK8 Installation

https://www.oracle.com/tr/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html

How to run Junit test on Chrome browser from terminal?

cd $PROJECT_PATH/Selenium-Java-Junit

mvn clean install site -Dbrowser.type=chrome

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ROBOT FRAMEWORK-PYTHON3

Requirements:

• Python3 Installation

https://www.python.org/downloads/

• Required Python Libraries Installation on Terminal/CMD

  • pip install robotframework

  • pip install --upgrade robotframework-pageobjectlibrary

  • pip install --upgrade robotframework-seleniumlibrary

  • pip install webdrivermanager

  • webdrivermanager firefox chrome --linkpath /usr/local/bin

  • pip install -r requirements.txt

How to run RobotFramework test from terminal?

cd $PROJECT_PATH/robotframework-python3/tests

robot DemoApp.robot

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CYPRESS

Requirements:

• NodeJS Installation

  • https://nodejs.org/en/download/

• Required NodeJS Libraries Installation on Terminal/CMD

  • npm install cypress

• Installing and opening Cypress

  • https://docs.cypress.io/guides/getting-started/installing-cypress

How to run Cypress test from terminal?

• Open Cypress application

  • cd /your/project/path/Cypress-js-mocha

  • ./node_modules/.bin/cypress open

• Running locally

  • cd /your/project/path/Cypress-js-mocha

  • npx cypress run --browser chrome --headed

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Resources:

https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/

https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html

https://docs.cypress.io/guides/overview/why-cypress#In-a-nutshell