Robot

IDE

• Pycharm.

Installing Pycharm

if you are in Linux you will have to:

• extract the folder
• enter the folder pycharm-community-2018.V.X (V and X are the numbers or the version) and then on the folder bin:

$   cd pycharm-community-2018.V.X/bin

• after that execute:

$   ./pycharm.sh

Getting Started

Please check out the if you have all the Prerequisites so the project can run on you local machine.

Prerequisites

• Python;
• Web driver for the browser you would like to use;
• Cropath extension for chrome.

Installing Python

If you do not have Python on your computer, you will need to install it using the command bellow or downloading it.

$   sudo apt-get install python

Downloading Web driver

• Chrome: http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
• Firefox: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Extract to a folder. (PS.: YOUR/PATH/TO/WEBDRIVER)

Cropath extension

This extension is used to make easier to find the locators using xpaths. Download it.

Setting up

Install pip

$   sudo apt install python-dev
$   sudo apt install python-pip
$   pip install virtualenv

Creating Virtual Environment through command line or through PyCharm:

Command Line:

$   virtualenv robotframework
$   source robotframework/bin/activate
$   pip install robotframework
$   pip install robotframework-ride
$   pip install robotframework-selenium2library

PyCharm:

• File > Settings > Project > Project Interpreter > +
  • robotframework
  • robotframework-faker
  • robotframework-selenium2library
  • robotframework-seleniumlibrary

Plugins

• Robot Framework Support:
  • File > Settings > Plugins > Browse repositories > Robot Framework Support

Useful source information:

Main:

• Robot Framework: http://robotframework.org
• Selenium Library: http://robotframework.org/SeleniumLibrary/SeleniumLibrary.html
• BuiltIn: http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/libraries/BuiltIn.html
• Faker Library: https://pypi.org/project/robotframework-faker/

Others:

• xpath: https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_syntax.asp
• CSS: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/trysel.asp

Acknowledgments

• Robot Framework: https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework.git
• Initial work tutorial: https://github.com/trucolo/robot-training

To execute robot

REMEMBER every time you restart your machine you will have to give this command:

$   export PATH="YOUR/PATH/TO/WEBDRIVER":$PATH

where YOUR/PATH/TO/WEBDRIVER is the path to your web driver folder.

Execute all the tests

To execute all the tests on the file, run:

$   robot -d PATH/OF/YOUR/RESULTS PATH/OF/YOUR/TESTFILE.robot

PS.: -d results it is to indicate that the results of the tests/selenium/tester.robot will be stored in the folder ./results/selenium

$   robot -d results/selenium tests/selenium/tester.robot

Execute specific test

If you would like to run just one or another test you can use the -i TAG, like the example below:

$   robot -d PATH/OF/YOUR/RESULTS -i TAG PATH/OF/YOUR/TESTFILE.robot

PS.: where TAG is the [Tags]'s name of the test you would like to execute.

$   robot -d results/selenium -i resources tests/selenium/tester.robot