Getting started with robot framework
Intention of this blog is to help in installing the Robot
framework with selenium webdriver step by step :
Step 1 : Install the python, you can download the installer
from here https://www.python.org/downloads/ ,use python2.7 ,robot framework is not yet
compatible with python3.4 (till feb
-2015)
Step 2: After
installing the python ,make sure to set the path in environment variables
In
system variable add PYTHON_HOME and add that variable in path variable as %
PYTHON_HOME%
setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\Python27\Scripts"
to verify
whether Python has been installed correctly or not
go to
command prompt and type the command python
–V ,it should display the version of installed python.
Step 3: Now install robot framework
pip install robotframework
Step
4 : install selenium2 library
pip install robotframework-selenium2library
If
you want to run the sample test with Robot
Download
WebDemo.zip from https://bitbucket.org/robotframework/webdemo/downloads
it
will have 2 folders :
1. demoapp
(it’s a simple AUT)
2. login_tests(it’s
a set of test to validate your application)
To
startup the demo application url :
Go
to directory where you have downloaded demoapp for e.g “cd c:\WebDemo”
python demoapp/server.py
Running tests
The test
cases are located in login_tests directory. To execute them
all use:
pybot login_tests
Report generation
Report
will get generated in the same directory
