Robot FrameworkAn Introduction

Agenda

1. basic concepts in Robot Framework2. demo3. pros and cons

facts

● keyword-driven test framework

● built on Python○ runs on Jython and IronPython as well

● open source○ released under apache 2.0 license

framework architecture

Test Cases

RF

Test Library

SUT

parsing test data syntax

interaction with SUT

calling functions

Simple tabular syntax

it can be in HTML

also in TSV and plain text

● tip: text-based test case works better with version-control system

Test Libraries

How RF translate test cases into actions

Test Libraries

How RF translate test cases into actions

Test Libraries

It can be written in Python

But you can use Jython or IronPython to be able to use Java or .Net APIs

Remote Libraries

libraries can be written in any languages

communicate with RF using XML-RPC

you can have a "master" computer execute the tests by calling remote libraries running on other computers*(

Basic Element - Keywords

You can define keywords in library...

Basic Element - Keywords

...or test cases

Different Test Style

Keyword-driven

Different Test Style

Data-driven

Different Test Style

Behavior-driven

Test Execution

tag support

nice test result in HTML

Test Execution

nice test result in HTMLfile:///C:/dev/rf/report.html

Crash course at

http://robotframework.googlecode.com/hg/doc/quickstart/quickstart.html

and it is also a test case

(now run a demo on it to show the awesomeness)

To sum up

Proit's very simple to be integrated into CI systemflexible test execution systemyou can extend the test system easily

Conrelatively small community compares to Fitnesse

Tack!