Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework for acceptance and regression testing. It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and supports test automation using the keyword-driven testing approach. Tests are created using test cases composed of test data and keywords. Keywords are provided by test libraries that extend the functionality of the framework. Robot Framework can be installed on Windows using pip and supports creating and running tests from the command line or using the RIDE test data editor.

1. ROBOT
FRAMEWORK
Onur Baskirt

2. Who am I?
▪ I am Onur Başkırt
▪ Currently, Head of SW Testing at Kariyer.net
▪ Co-owner of www.swtestacademy.com and a Test Hive Member 
▪ Formerly, Teknosa, Ericsson, Huawei, ST-Ericsson, Bahçeşehir University

3. Table of Contents
▪ What is Robot Framework?
▪ Robot Framework Architecture and Test Flow
▪ Libraries
▪ Tools
▪ How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Robot Framework Usage with an Example

4. What is Robot Framework?
▪ Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework.
▪ It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax.
▪ It utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach.
▪ Its testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries.
▪ Users can create new higher-level keywords from existing ones using the same
syntax.
▪ It is operating system and application independent. The core framework is
implemented using Python.
▪ Robot Framework itself is open source.

5. Robot Framework Architecture and Test Flow
▪ When test execution is started, the framework
first parses the test data.
▪ It then utilizes keywords provided by the test
libraries to interact with the system under
test.
▪ Libraries can communicate with the system
either directly or using other test tools as
drivers.
▪ Test execution is started from the command
line and at the end of execution you get report
and log HTML format as well as XML output.

6. Libraries
▪ Test libraries provide the actual testing capabilities to Robot Framework by
providing keywords.

7. Libraries

8. Libraries

9. Tools

10. Tools

11. Tools

12. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ We will install Robot Framework with pip.
▪ Pip is the standard Python package manager and is already installed if you’re
using Python 2 >=2.7.9 or Python 3 >=3.4

13. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-1: Install Phyton
Go to https://www.python.org/ , download and install Python 2.7.x version

14. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-2: Install Robot Framework
Open command prompt and run below command.
pip install robotframework

15. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-3: Upgrade pip
Upgrade the pip with below command.
python -m pip install -U pip

16. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-4: Verifying Installation
After a successful installation, you should be able to execute below commands
and get both Robot Framework and interpreter versions.
robot --version
rebot --version

17. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Note: If you have any problem please check Path configuration and restart
your PC. Path configuration must be as same as below figure.

18. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-5: Upgrade Robot Framework
Upgrading to a new version required either using the –upgrade option:
pip install --upgrade robotframework
or specifying the version to use explicitly:
pip install robotframework==2.9.2
Note: You can uninstall Robot Framework anytime with below command.
pip uninstall robotframework

19. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-6: Installing RIDE (Robot Framework Test Data Editor)
▪ Python 2.6 is the minimum version.
▪ Notice that similarly as Robot Framework, RIDE does not yet support Python 3.
▪ Notice also that on OS X RIDE requires 32-bit Python version.

20. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-6: Installing RIDE (Robot Framework Test Data Editor)
▪ Step-6.1: Python must be installed. (We installed it)

21. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-6: Installing RIDE (Robot Framework Test Data Editor)
▪ Step-6.2: wxPyhton must be installed.
We need to install “wxPyhton2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.12.1-py27.exe” 32-bit version.
WARNING!
If you install latest version, you will get below error!

22. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-6: Installing RIDE (Robot Framework Test Data Editor)
▪ Step-6.3: Install RIDE with below pip command
pip install robotframework-ride

23. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-6: Installing RIDE (Robot Framework Test Data Editor)
▪ Step-6.4: After a successful installation, RIDE can be started from the command
line by running ride.py.

24. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-7: Install Selenium 2 (WebDriver) Library
Selenium2Library is a web testing library for Robot Framework that leverages
the Selenium 2 (WebDriver) libraries from the Selenium project.
Installation Command:
pip install robotframework-selenium2library

25. How to install Robot Framework on Windows?
▪ Step-8: Upgrade Selenium 2 (WebDriver) Library
Upgrade Command:
pip install --upgrade robotframework-selenium2library

26. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ Test Scenario:
▪ Open www.kariyer.net
▪ Check Title
▪ Maximize Browser
▪ Go to User Login Page
▪ Enter User Name
▪ Enter Wrong Password
▪ Click Login
▪ Wait 2 seconds
▪ Assert Warning Message
▪ Close Browser

27. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ Directory Structure:
▪ setup.robot file holds Settings, Variables, Keywords information
▪ KariyerLoginTest.robot file contains Test Cases which are using our High
Level Keywords

28. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ Setup.robot:
▪ KariyerLoginTest.robot:

29. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ Run the Test on Command Prompt
robot KariyerLoginTest.robot
▪ Report and log results will be automatically generated after the test execution.

30. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ Run the Test on RIDE
▪ Open cmd prompt and write “ride.py” and then press Enter. Then, you will see
RIDE editor.
▪ Go to File >> New Project and then give a name to your project as shown below.

31. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ Add Resource File

32. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ After adding Resource File

33. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ Write your robot test

34. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ Write your robot test

35. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ Run The Test

36. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ While Test is Running

37. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ When Test finished.

38. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ REPORT

39. Robot Framework Usage with an Example
▪ LOG

40. For More Information
▪ http://www.swtestacademy.com/getting-started-robotframework/

41. QUESTIONS?