Robot Framework Test Automation电子书

Robot Framework Test Automation

Table of Contents

Robot Framework Test Automation

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with the Robot Framework

The need for acceptance testing

Pinpoint application failure

Reducing the error rate

Providing automation and re-use

Creating the a test audit trail

What is the Robot Framework?

The Robot Framework ecosystem

Installing and setting up the Robot Framework

Source installation

One-click graphical installer

Java environment installation

The Python package installation

Support for different runtimes

Command details

A small exercise

Summary

2. Configuring a Test Project

Test naming conventions

Creating an execution order

Test randomization

Test file structure

HTML format

TSV format

Plaintext format

Pipe-separated format

Restructured text format

Test configuration files

Suite initialization files

External variable files

Structure

Python/Java files containing variables

Resource files

Structure

Test setup and teardown

Summary

3. Further Test Customization

Automation and agile

Internal re-use

Loops and flow control

Flow control

Breaking off without finishing

Feeding external data

Performing a set of tasks repeatedly within a test

Application in test automation

Higher order re-use

User keywords

Test templates

User libraries

Approaches towards writing tests

Keyboard-driven tests

Data-driven tests

Behavior-driven tests

Behavior-driven development

BDD using the Robot Framework

Standard libraries

Collections

Dialogs

Operating System

Process

Screenshot

String

Telnet

XML

Remote test execution

Summary

4. Extending the Framework

Testing the web applications

Selenium

The Robot Framework Selenium library

Running web-based tests

Using the Selenium2Library

Debugging through the REPL shell

Testing desktop applications

Testing through objects – Java Swing

A Swing test

Testing through images

Sikuli

Creating a custom Sikuli library

Other noteworthy libraries

Testing network protocols

Testing the web services

Testing the database

Summary

5. Generating Reports

The need for reports

Quick-test run assessment

Result comparison

Individual result detailing

Intelligent assessment

Generated files

Output structure

Heading

Summary information

Test statistics

Test details

Test execution log

Test coloring information

Separating files

Making changes in outputs

Customizing the report title

Background color customization

Changing how much is logged

Changing the report format

Creating derived reports

Recreating reports

Viewing differences

Further result usage

Summary

Index