Robot Framework Basics

🐱‍👤 About

This project is an Web and API REST test automation with Robot Framework.

🐱‍🏍 Applications

Web: Automation Practice

API: FakeRESTApi

🐱‍💻 Course

Automação de Testes com Robot Framework - Básico

🤖 Robot Framework

• Enables easy-to-use tabular syntax for creating test cases in a uniform way

• Provides ability to create reusable higher-level keywords from the existing keywords

• Is platform and application independent

• Provides a simple library API for creating customized test libraries which can be implemented natively with either Python or Java

• Provides easy-to-read result reports and logs in HTML format

• Supports creating data-driven test cases

  Reference: Robot Framework User Guide

💻 Installation

Install Python 3

• Mark the option “Add Python 3.x to PATH” on Python installer (.exe file)
• Verify if it was installed: python --version

Install Robot Framework

• pip install robotframework
• Verify if it was installed: robot --version or pip show robotframework

Install the Libraries

• Install SeleniumLibrary: pip install --upgrade robotframework-seleniumlibrary
• Install HTTP RequestsLibrary: pip install --upgrade robotframework-requests
• Install Faker: pip install --upgrade robotframework-faker
• Check the list of installed libraries: pip list

Web Drivers (for web testing)

Download and extract the executable files of correspondent Operational System:

• Firefox (select the latest version): https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
• Chrome (select the version according to chrome browser's version): https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

Extensions for Visual Studio Code

• Robot Framework Intellisense by Tomi Turtiainen supports Robot Framework development
• Robot Framework Language Server by Robocorp useful for document formatter and variable, language and keyword autocomplete, and other resources

🚀 Usage

Run all tests: robot Tests

Set report directory: robot -d .\Results Tests

Run specific file: robot .\Tests\<file_name.robot>

Example: robot .\Tests\TestCasesAPIBooks-EN.robot

Run specific test case: robot -t <"test_case_name"> Tests

Example: robot -t "Register a new book(POST)" Tests

✨ Visuals

Example API automation:

References

• Robot Framework User Guide
• BuiltIn Library
• Selenium Library
• Collections Library
• Faker Library
• Requests Library

License

MIT