Testing Automation - learn robot framework in 5 minutes

What you will learn

1. What is Robot Framework
2. Why Robot Framework
3. Robot Framework Architecture
4. Who is using Robot Framework in real world
5. Install Robot Framework
6. Example Test Case

Robot Framework is open source automation framework to reduce the human effort by automating the repeated task.

Why Robot Framework

Robot framework has super easy syntax that can be written like human readable English language, very powerful and flexible solutions are automated with the less efforts.

It's built on top of Python and has very extendable support to create own library to meet our requirements.

Robot Framework Architecture

Who is using Robot Framework in real world

Top leading enterprise companies use Robot Framework for testing automation and Robotic Process Automation.

Install Robot Framework

We need python and pip to be install before we start.

• Python Installation - https://www.python.org/downloads/
• PIP installation - https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/

Run on terminal

pip install robotframework

pip install robotframework-seleniumlibrary

pip install chromedriver_installer

Verify the Robot framework installation

robot --version

Output

Example

Robot Framework support .robot files extension only, let's create our first test case file.

Run the code

robot robot-example.robot

Output

Test Report

Conclusion

We have learned about how to setup robot framework and run our first program, In upcoming articles we will explore in detail with the real world examples.

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