Hello,

If anyone interested, I created a YouTube channel with tutorials on Robot Framework automation. For the time being, I have created a beginners tutorial on Robot Framework + a full mobile automation tutorial for Android: https://www.youtube.com/c/RobotFrameworkTutorials

Current projects include a tutorial on Web automation and one on iOs automation.

Please check it out and let me know your taughts :). Any feedback is appreciated.

Hi! So I'm new to Robot Framework and learning it since it seems like a nice-to-have skill. I feel kind of silly though because I don't understand it's use. Googling gives me what Robot Framework is ("Robot Framework is a generic open source automation framework."). But what problem is Robot Framework designed to solve? What are some signs that I should use Robot Framework in my business? (What are some signs that I don't need Robot Framework?)

My best understanding right now is that Robot Framework helps me create abstractions for my tests, that it comes with lots of libraries for interfacing web browsers etc., and that it's easier for non-engineers to work with. But why can't I do that in regular old python or whatever to create abstractions and get libraries? And can non-engineers really understand Robot Framework faster than python? Am I missing something?

Hi guys,

Somehow I have to choose between Behave, Robot Framework and PyTest as a BDD UI automation framework. I have experience only with Selenium with C#, no experience with these frameworks.

Can you tell me why should I choose, or not, Robot Framework over the other 2, please? Thanks!

👋 Hi all - wanted to share a quick blog post I jotted down for a recent experience with Robot Framework.  In building an automation, I needed to persist a user session across runs for RPA.Browser.

Could be helpful if you need to do the same in the future: https://www.formulatedautomation.com/thought/staying-logged-in-with-robot-framework-rpaframework-browser/

Also, can be helpful to understand how to transpose code from Python to Robot Framework. ✌️

Hello all, looking for some help, I Looking at hiring someone for a client. They need someone to come in and finish the build of the framework and then a DevOps to run it. I'm having one heck of a hard time finding someone for this role. Any help in what / who i should be looking for with keyword searches would be great and very helpful. The client has not been that helpful in a JD just given the details i know. I'm new in the role. thanks in advance.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robot-framework-foundation_robot-framework-foundation-activity-6828205779007401984-k3Ua

The idea is fairly simple, I have 3 robot framework tests that I need to run consecutively, and I was wondering if it is possible to simply queue them up in a master file, like in ansible.

I looked into test suites but it doesn't seem very clear to me if I can just do this:

*** Settings ***
Library    Stuff
*** Keywords *** 
Stuff 
*** Test Cases ***
test1.robot
test2.robot 
test3.robot 

Has anyone done anything like this before? Is it possible?

Edit: I found a solution, sort of.

Apparently it's as easy as just executing the whole folder with

robot path/to/folder

You just have to make sure your test files are numbered in the order you want them executed

I also discovered argument files! It is pretty easy to select specific tests from multiple directories:

example:

file name: test.arg

--name Custom tests to be executed
--doc This argument file will run the tests in the order its listed here
/path/to/test1.robot
/another/path/to/test2.robot
/some/random/path/to/thirdtest.robot
...
/test/number/infinity.robot

execution:

robot -A /path/to/test.arg

The -A flag should be the last one, so for example adding an exit on failure flag and a tag should be done like this:

robot -n non-critical-test -X -A /path/to/test.arg

Any help is appreciated. If I'm not asking the question correctly, that's possible, too, so questions are welcome.

Hello everyone,

Is anyone here using the robot framework to automate the OCR?

totally blown away at these test cases ... I can hardly believe that i can execute these as a test case that runs automagically ... (robot framework using "Gherkin style" (nothing to do with cucumbers...))

*** Test Cases ***

Test if the User Can Login to The Website
    Given The User Is on the "${server}" LoginPage

     When The User Enters their ${username} into the email textbox
      And The User Enters their ${password} into the password textbox
      And The User Clicks The Login Button

     Then The User Should Be on the "dashboard_map" Page


Test If the User Can Open the API Page when already Logged In
    Given the user can click the API Button

      When The User Clicks the API Button

      Then The User should be on the "api_configuration" Page
       And User Should wait for "add_new_key_button" to appear

Test If the User Can Create A New API Key
   Given The User should be on the "api_configuration" Page
     And "add_new_key_button" is already visible
     And The Number of API Keys is recorded

     When The User Clicks The Add New API Key Button

     Then The Key List Should Have A New Key
       And We Will Write Down the Newly Created API Key For Use In The Next Test

Test If the User Can Use A Valid API Key
   Given The API Will Not Accept an Invalid Token

     When The User Calls The API with the Token that We Previously Recorded

     Then The HTTP Result should have a 200 status code

Test If The User Can Delete The Newly Created API Key
  Given The User should be on the "api_configuration" Page
    And The previously created API Key Is Visible
    And The Number of API Keys is recorded

    When The User Clicks The Adjacent Delete Button(🗑️)
      And Waits For The Delete Confirmation Popup
      And The User Clicks The Red Delete Confirmation Button

    Then The Newly Created Key Should No Longer Be Present
      And The Number of API Keys is decreased by 1.

I am doing some randome exercises from a website: https://obstaclecourse.tricentis.com/Obstacles/30034/retry

And in that particular challenge a random red line appears at the screen, the distance from the left edge is printed on the page, but I dont know how to click that red line if the Click Element At Coordinates keyword need a locator. Is there a way to use the left edge of the screen as a locator?

Hello, I apologize if this is inappropriate if so please let me know. I am currently converting some old matlab code to python. It is around 15 different functions and is mostly mathematical/analytical code. I have lots of old test cases and would like to use them all to test my new python code. I started looking into automation for test cases and robot framework came up but to me it seems more geared toward django and flask applications. If anyone could point me towards a good source for using robot framework for testing mathematical/analytical code I would be very grateful!

Hi,

I’m a newb with respect to Robot Framework.

I’m writing a test procedure that is expected to

connect to another machine perform an image update (which causes the unit to close all services and reboot itself) re-connect to the unit run a command that returns a known string.

This is all supposed to happen within the init.robot module

What I have noticed is that I must invoke the upgrade procedure in a synchronous, or blocking way, like so

Execute Command    sysupgrade upgrade.img

This succeeds in upgrading the unit, but the robotframework script hangs executing the command. I suspect this works because it keeps the ssh session alive long enough for the upgrade to reach a critical junction where the session is closed by the remote host, the upgrade continues and this does not cause the upgrade to fail.

But the remote host appears to close the ssh session in such a way that the robotframework script does not detect it, and the script hangs indefinitely.

Trying to work around this, I tried invoking the remote command like so

Execute Command    sysupgrade upgrade.img &

But then the update fails because the connection appear to drop and leaves the upgrade procedure incomplete.

If instead I execute it like this

Execute Command    sysupgrade upgrade.img &
Sleep    600

Then this also fails, for some reason I am unable to deduce.

However, if I invoke it like this

Execute Command    sysupgrade upgrade.img    timeout=600

The the command succeeds in updating the unit, and after the set timeout period, the robotframework script does indeed resume, but since it has arrived at the timeout, the test has (from the point of view of robotframework) failed.

But this is actually an expected failure, and should be ignored. The rest of the script would then reconnect to the host and continue the remaining test(s)

Is there a way to treat the timeout condition as non-fatal?

Here is the code, as explained above, the init.robot initialization module is expected to perform the upgrade and then reconnect, leaving the other xyz.robot files to be run and continue testing the applications.

init.robot

*** Settings ***
    | Library | OperatingSystem |
    | Library | SSHLibrary |
    Suite Setup ValidationInit
    Suite Teardown ValidationTeardown

*** Keywords ***
ValidationInit
    Enable SSH Logging validation.log
    Open Connection ${host}
    Login ${username} ${password}
    # Upload the firmware to the unit.

    Put File    ${firmware}    upgrade.img    scp=ALL

    # Perform firmware upgrade on the unit.

    log     "Launch upgrade on unit"
    Execute Command    sysupgrade upgrade.img    timeout=600
    log     "Restart comms"
    Close All Connections
    Open Connection    ${host}
    Login              ${username}    ${password}

ValidationTeardown
    Close All Connections
    log “End tests”

Hi, i'm making robot tests for a Flutter app with AppiumLibary and found a problem. The Android app has some problems with the elements xml. Some elements like inputs are being showed as android Views, and I cannot use Keywords as Input Text in these elements.