From the course: Robot Framework Test Automation: Level 1 (Selenium)

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Features and capabilities

Features and capabilities - Selenium Tutorial

From the course: Robot Framework Test Automation: Level 1 (Selenium)

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Features and capabilities

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Robot Framework has a lot of features and capabilities. It is cross-platform so you can install it and use it on Windows, Mac, or Linux. It's essentially keyword-driven, but it has data-driven capabilities. The keywords allow you to create your test cases in a very natural language using your business domain, and you can even create your test cases in English, or German, or French, or Spanish, whatever you want, so that the right stakeholders can understand what's being tested. So let me do another quick demo to show you what I mean by plain English keywords. I have Pycharm open and I've created an empty robot script file. Creating a Robot Framework test case can be as easy as just putting in your test cases header, then providing the name of your test case. Then going to the next line and hitting "Tab" and I'll type in lo, and notice I have all these keywords. I could log something. I could do a for loop. I could set a local variable. And none of this is code, it's just plain English…

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