Robot Framework with actual robot

Robot Framework with actual robot

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  Robot Framework with actualrobot Sakari Pesonen 2.11.2015
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  Problem? • Development ofembedded system software requires testing also at the hardware level, i.e. running on actual device. • Manual testing slows down the development process. • How to automate the testing of the final product? • Example using payment terminal.
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  Solution • Let’s doexactly what human user would do, press the buttons and look at the screen, but with a robot • Integrate robot and computer vision to Robot Framework —> easily readable and writable test cases and reports • Let’s make testing efficient and integrate the testing robot to CI environment
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  The Robot • Shapeoko2, 3-axis CNC-milling machine • Equipped with a pushing tool, turns in to a portal robot • Controlled by an Arduino parsing g-code sent over serial bus • Working area can be populated with multiple devices • Robot Framework library was created for machine control
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  Computer Vision • Charactersare recognised from the screen using Tesseract OCR engine developed by HP labs and Google • Recognises characters from the image and represents found features in verbal format • Images are captured by using Raspberry Pi camera • Efficient enough that OCR, test case execution and machine control can be all run using just one Raspberry Pi 2 • Created Robot Framework library for taking picture, processing the image and doing OCR
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  Demo Blog post: http://eficode.fi/blogi/konenakoa-ja-robot-hardworkkia/
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  Sakari Pesonen, Consultant sakari.pesonen@eficode.com +358(0)40 753 0283 eficode.fi THANK YOU!