Robot Framework

Introduction

Robot Framework is a Python-based keyword-driven test automation framework with an easy-to-use tabular syntax for creating test cases. Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented either with Python or Java. Users can also create new keywords from existing ones using the same simple syntax that is used for creating test cases.

• Enables easy-to-use tabular syntax for creating test cases in a uniform way.
• Provides ability to create reusable higher-level keywords from the existing keywords.
• Provides easy-to-read result reports and logs in HTML format.
• Is platform and application independent.
• Can natively use both Python and Java test code.
• Provides a simple library API for creating customized test libraries.
• Provides a command line interface and XML based outputs for integration into existing build infrastructure (continuous integration systems).
• Provides support for Selenium for web testing, Java GUI testing, running processes, Telnet, SSH, and so on.
• Supports creating data-driven tests.
• Provides tagging to categorize and select test cases to be executed.

Robot Framework documentation including User Guide and keyword documentations of standard libraries can be found from 'doc' directory. For more information, see http://robotframework.org.

License

Robot Framework code and tests are provided under Apache License 2.0. Documentation and other similar content use Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

• http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Installation

See INSTALLATION.txt for installation and uninstallation instructions.

Additionally PACKAGING.tx contains details about creating new installation packages.

Usage

Robot Framework is executed from command line using pybot or jybot runner scripts, which run the framework with Python or Jython interpreters, respectively. The basic usage is giving a path to test data to be executed as an argument to the selected runner, with possible command line options before the path. Additionally there is a rebot tool for post-processing outputs.

Examples::

pybot mytests.html jybot --variable HOST:myhost --outputdir results path/to/tests/ rebot --name Example output1.xml output2.xml

For more information, run pybot --help and rebot --help or see the user guide.

Directory Layout

atest/ Acceptance tests. Naturally using Robot Framework.

doc/ User Guide and standard library documentation.

proto/ Tools, scripts, etc. not yet ready for real use.

src/ Robot Framework source code.

templates/ Simple HTML and TSV test data templates.

tools/ Different utilities for Robot Framework users.

utest/ Unit tests.