First project

The video for this lecture is at the end of this page

Libraries extend Robot Framework capabilities

Used in the first exercise:

•SeleniumLibrary – allows to work with elements on a web page

Open Browser

•open browser URL browser

•open browser google.com chrome

Close Browser

Maximize Browser Window

Input Text

•input text locator text

•input text id=email [email protected]

Click Button / Click Element

•click element css=input[name="submit"]

Wait Until ...

•wait until element is visible id=username timeout=5s

•wait until element is not visible id=loader timeout=5s

•wait until element contains css=h1 text timeout=5s

Sleep

•sleep 5s

Element Should Contain

•element should contain locator text

•Basic rule: a test without assertion is not a test!

•Assertion is a comparison of actual result with expected result

•Statement expected to be true

Wait Until Element Is Visible

•Set Robot Framework to wait until given element appears on the page

•Generally preferable over Sleep

Sleep

•Sets test to "sleep" for given time

•Should not be used for waiting for elements to load

•Use only in exceptional cases and always comment on why!

1.Open Terminal window in PyCharm:

•View -> Tool Windows -> Terminal

•Or open a command line window and navigate to your project folder

2.Type in "robot path\to\mytest.robot" and hit Enter

•where path\to\mytest.robot is relative path to your file with test cases

•you can also run all tests in a folder at once: "robot ." or "robot myfolder"