Selenium Robot Framework

Introduction

For a long time SeleniumLibrary was de facto default library for UI testing of web applications.

Documentation

Installation

python -m pip install robotframework-seleniumlibrary

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Example of test with Selenium WebDriver

The peculiarity of Robot Framework syntax is that between the keyword and the value you need to put two spaces.

For example, between Library and SeleniumLibrary you need to put two spaces.

Created a simple test in the file GoogleSearch.robot

*** Settings *** Documentation Simple example using SeleniumLibrary. Library SeleniumLibrary *** Variables *** *** Test Cases *** This is sample test case [documentation] Google test [tags] regression Open Browser http://www.google.com chrome Close Browser *** Keywords ***

robot -d results Tests/Google/FunctionalTestSuite/GoogleSearch.robot

============================================================================== GoogleSearch :: Simple example using SeleniumLibrary. ============================================================================== This is sample test case :: Google test DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:64096/devtools/browser/b2618042-f0b5-4e41-976f-106fdd21d9v0 This is sample test case :: Google test | PASS | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GoogleSearch :: Simple example using SeleniumLibrary. | PASS | 1 test, 1 passed, 0 failed ============================================================================== Output: /home/andrei/robotframework/RobotFWTutorial/results/output.xml Log: /home/andrei/robotframework/RobotFWTutorial/results/log.html Report: /home/andrei/robotframework/RobotFWTutorial/results/report.html

firefox Results/report.html

A more detailed report is available at log.html