Roelof Albers
Read all my blogsAutomated testing is buzzing around everywhere, so I decided to join the party. Below are the results of my first test.
For this test I used Robot Framework with Selenium Library. This is one of the best options to test a web application.
- Robot Framework (https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework and http://robotframework.org/)
- Selenium Library (https://github.com/robotframework/SeleniumLibrary/)
- PyCharm IDE (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/) (Optional, you can use every text editor you want)
- Chrome Driver (https://pypi.org/project/chromedriver_installer/) (Optional, used by the robot framework to start Chrome)
Installing should be as easy as following the Readme’s in GitHub and you are able to find several tutorials through Google as well.
When your environment is ready to go, you can start making your first robot file.
Below is the robot file I created for this first test. The Test Case that I would like to run is to check if Acorel can still be found on Google.
*** Settings ***
Documentation This is a simple test with Robot Framework
Library Selenium2Library *** Variables ***
${SERVER} http://google.com
${BROWSER} Chrome
${DELAY} 0 *** Keywords ***
Open Browser To Google
Open Browser ${SERVER} ${BROWSER}
Maximize Browser Window
Google Should Be Open
Set Selenium Speed ${DELAY} Google Should Be Open
Location Should Contain www.google.com Search For Acorel
Input Text lst-ib Acorel
Press Key lst-ib \13 Result Should Contain Acorel
Wait Until Page Contains www.acorel.nl 10 s *** Test Cases ***
Check if Acorel is still on Google
Open Browser To Google
Search For Acorel
Result Should Contain Acorel
[Teardown] Close Browser
Documentation This is a simple test with Robot Framework
Library Selenium2Library *** Variables ***
${SERVER} http://google.com
${BROWSER} Chrome
${DELAY} 0 *** Keywords ***
Open Browser To Google
Open Browser ${SERVER} ${BROWSER}
Maximize Browser Window
Google Should Be Open
Set Selenium Speed ${DELAY} Google Should Be Open
Location Should Contain www.google.com Search For Acorel
Input Text lst-ib Acorel
Press Key lst-ib \13 Result Should Contain Acorel
Wait Until Page Contains www.acorel.nl 10 s *** Test Cases ***
Check if Acorel is still on Google
Open Browser To Google
Search For Acorel
Result Should Contain Acorel
[Teardown] Close Browser
As you can see the robot file has several parts.
- Inside the Settings you can add a description and include external libraries or other resources (i.e. robot files).
- The Variables can be defined and used in the your Keywords.
- Keywords are functions/methods that can be called from a Test Case or another Keyword.
- Test Cases are (ofcourse) test cases that can be run with the framework.
Open the Terminal (or Command on Windows), navigate to the directory with your robot file and start the test with the command: robot example.robot
Chrome will open and the browser will navigate to Google.
The search field will be filled with Acorel and search will be performed.
In your Terminal you will see this screen when all checks are passed:
For more information you can see the generated log files, which shows exactly which step might have failed.
In case the check fails, you will see the following message:
The logging will show exactly what went wrong. The framework automatically makes a screenshot of the failed screen.
These we’re my first steps into automated testing. Hope you got some inspiration and are going to try it out yourself after reading this blog!
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