Robot Framework automation example using http://www.automationpractice.com (Shown below)
Newcomers to Robot Framework interested in automated web testing, looking for examples
Robot framework is a python based, open source test automation framework with great extensibility. Robot framework is cross platform and will run on Mac, Linux and Windows.
See here for Robot Framework home page
A basic Robot Framework Project covering the following:
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Automating the purchase of an item from automationpractice.com including signing up for an account
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Calculating that the prices including shipping are correct
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Use of custom python keywords to generate random emails, generate random names
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Basic scripting to perform some mathematics
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Test Objects required to perform the test cases
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Far from perfect - was created quick and dirty
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BDD Gherkin Style Test Suite added
- Install Python 3
- Download Selenium Web Driver for your browser of choice (be sure to get the correct version matching your browsers version)
- Add WebDriver executable to your systems PATH environment variable
- Clone or download this repository
- Using command line navigate in to the project folder and execute the command
pip install -r requirementsthis will install robot framework, robot framework selenium library and the names python package also required for custom keywords
Once everything has been installed you can run the test suite from the command line in the projects folder with the commandrobot .\automationpractice.robot
By default it will try and run using Google Chrome, this can be changed at the command line by running robot -v BROWSER:edge .\automationpractice.robot to run with Microsoft Edge for example, or can be changed in the variables.robot file
Please critic and or suggest improvements, branch off & add more test cases
How to make the scripts run faster?
How to make the code cleaner?
Are there better approaches to obtain the same results?
More?
- Anthony O`Donnell - LinkedIn