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Introduction to Robot Framework – Exove
Robot Framework is an open source test automation framework that can be used to test web, desktop, and mobile applications. It uses a keyword-driven design and has a modular architecture that makes it easy to extend with custom test libraries. Some benefits include being highly reusable, accessible for beginners, and having powerful logging capabilities. However, it does not support while loops or nested for loops, and working with non-string data types can be complicated. The framework operates independently of the system under test and uses test suites made up of test cases that can each be in their own namespace. Custom keywords, variables, and extensions are usually stored separately.
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Introduction to Robot Framework – Exove
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- 2. Contents Contents What is RobotFramework? Common use Cases Pros and cons Architecture and structure 1 2 3 4 5
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- 4. Robot Framework is... ●A generic open source automation framework for acceptance testing / Robotic process automation ● Implemented using Python and runs also on Jython (JVM) and IronPython (.NET). ● Operating system and application independent. ● Initially developed by Nokia, currently sponsored by the Robot Framework Foundation ● Free open source software (Apache License 2.0)
- 5. ● Web, desktopand mobile application testing ● Acceptance testing ● API testing ● Less common: ○ Unit and integration testing ○ Database testing Common use cases
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- 7. Pros ● Highly abstracted,keyword driven design ● Modular architecture, easy to extend with self made or third party test libraries. ● Keywords are highly reusable ● Accessible for beginners ● Powerful logging capabilities
- 8. Cons ● No supportfor while-loops or nested for-loops ● Everything is a string, working with integers and booleans is sometimes a bit complicated ● Overly verbose (Arguable) ● Certain use cases necessitate the use of global variables, which makes the codebase harder to sustain and refactor ● High levels of abstraction can easily cause performance overhead on more complex tasks
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- 10. ● Doesn’t carewhat kind of system is being tested ● Tools, libraries and test data can be supplied in many different forms ● Highly reusable keywords Robot Framework is modular because..
- 11. ● Test suitesconsist of multiple test cases ● Test cases are considered separate namespaces ● You can have multiple test suites within a single project ● Custom keywords, variables and python extensions are usually stored in a separate file Test suite structure
- 12. ● Keywords arehigh level structures that provide functionality. You can think of these as functions. (Because they are, basically) ● Keywords can consist of any number of different keywords, or even raw python code. Keyword Structure
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