Robot Framework Test Automation Pdf
[download] ebooks robot framework test automation pdf ROBOT FRAMEWORK TEST AUTOMATION Robot framework test automation - naruto band 17 ebookalso the bride wore blue. – Suitable for both “normal” test automation and ATDD. Robot Framework Introduction Keywords: robot framework, test automation, acceptance testing. Abstract Author(s) Title Number of Pages Date Phat Chau Tan Automation Testing With Robot Framework 36 pages 27 March 2016 Degree Bachelor of Engineering.
In Detail Testing has traditionally been a part of software development, and has always involved a lot of manual effort. It can be automated with Robot Framework, which offers numerous benefits from cost saving to increased quality assurance in the software delivery.
This book will help you to start designing test suites and Automated Acceptance Tests. Helping you to get s In Detail Testing has traditionally been a part of software development, and has always involved a lot of manual effort. It can be automated with Robot Framework, which offers numerous benefits from cost saving to increased quality assurance in the software delivery. This book will help you to start designing test suites and Automated Acceptance Tests. Helping you to get started with automating acceptance tests, this book will provide a detailed overview of acceptance test management practices and principles. You will also be introduced to advanced techniques that you can use to customize the test suite, along with helpful tips and tricks to extend and leverage it in a wide variety of scenarios. Starting with a detailed explanation of the need for automated acceptance test driven development, this guide will help you with an empty test project creation and execution for proof of concept, and validation of installation.
This book will also cover the Robot Framework in detail, and will help you test desktop applications using Java Swing. You will gain an in-depth knowledge of tricky activities, such as setting up a test environment and using it with Selenium. You will also learn about other popular libraries, and how to test network protocols, web services, and databases. This book will cover the entire Robot Framework with real- world practical material to make its content informative and interesting. By the end of this book you will be able to write acceptance tests for desktop and web applications, as well as know how to extend acceptance testing in other scenarios that are commonly devoid of tests, and present the results appropriately. Approach Written in an engaging, easy-to-follow style, this practical guide will teach you to create test suites and automated acceptance Tests with the Robot Framework.
Who this book is for If you are an automation engineer, QA engineer, developer or tester who is looking to get started with Robot Framework, as well as find a standardized testing solution, this book is ideal for you. No prior knowledge of Robot Framework or acceptance testing is required, although a basic knowledge of Python is required for few sections of the book. During the past year, I've been lucky to meet many people new to Robot Framework and help them to get started in writing acceptance tests with it. While Robot Framework already comes with a nice and a very comprehensive, there's still a lot room for good narratives on getting started with it. So, when I heard about a new book about Robot Framework, I was quite excited. Unfortunately, (Bisht 2013) appeared not to be the book that I was During the past year, I've been lucky to meet many people new to Robot Framework and help them to get started in writing acceptance tests with it.
While Robot Framework already comes with a nice and a very comprehensive, there's still a lot room for good narratives on getting started with it. So, when I heard about a new book about Robot Framework, I was quite excited. Unfortunately, (Bisht 2013) appeared not to be the book that I was waiting for. The book gives a nice (short) introduction to acceptance testing in general and a quite ok overview of the features available in Robot Framework.
After reading the book, you should have a good idea of all the things that are possible with Robot Framework, but you might be confused of how all the presented topics are related and how to actually use them in practice. While the book is a quick read to get familiar with most of the features and concepts in Robot Framework, it's not a sufficient standalone guide for actually writing any tests with it. For example, the book uses a few different Robot Framework syntaxes inconsistently, and only a very few examples are complete (without downloading the bundled source code). In general, I would recommend to skip the examples in this book and learn the best practices from the examples in the official instead. However, if you find both the official and too intimidating to get started with Robot Framework, you could try this book to learn the concepts and possibilities, and then return to the official guides for learning the details. Disclaimer: I got a review copy of the book from Packt.
When I first saw this book online, I was excited that some one finally wrote a book about Robot Framework. Well, if you tried to search “Cucumber” on amazon.com, you’ll luckily find at least 4 books introduce about this testautomation framework. And if you used to search “Robot Framework”, only one avaliable before this book “Robot Framework Test Automation” got published.
I was expecting a “in depth” introduction of robot framework. Thus users can gain some advance knowledge besides the user guid When I first saw this book online, I was excited that some one finally wrote a book about Robot Framework. Well, if you tried to search “Cucumber” on amazon.com, you’ll luckily find at least 4 books introduce about this testautomation framework. And if you used to search “Robot Framework”, only one avaliable before this book “Robot Framework Test Automation” got published. I was expecting a “in depth” introduction of robot framework.
Thus users can gain some advance knowledge besides the user guide online avaliable together with the source code. But unfortunately it’s not presented in that way, it was a more than “Know how” guide for Robot Framework.
To be fairly said, this book was still a good guidence to a newbie of Robot Framework, Show him/her the big picture of this test automation framework. It well covered most part of the framework, start with downloading, installation to extending it with external libraries. By reading this book, you can genernal and quick understanding of ATDD(Acceptance Test Driven Development) and Robot Framework.
Ofcause you can also find some exercises help you using the framework. Although IMHO we need more exercises in every chapter.
Book took about a half content introducing the framework structure, like variable, keywords, test suties, test cases etc. Which definately can be found in the online user guide too, but the explaination was clear enough to under stand for a non-technical background reader. To summarize, if you’re a newbie come into the ATDD world, looking for a tool can perform the test automation job. You may found this book helpful. I suggest you read this book first and then goes to the online user guide, although the user guide was free. If you’re the one who already start using Robot Frameowk in your daily job, then you’re not the target audiance of this book definitely. Last but not the least, thanks to packtpub provide this e-book for me to review.
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First, when I opened the book (got PDF version) I was quite surprised how short it is (99 pages). And this was even bigger surprise, that there's only about half of the book for the 'beginners' (meaning: for 'non-developers' in a sense). The chapters from 1 to 3 and 5 offer new RF users brief introduction to framework and how it can be used in different ways (different test file forms, different ways to initialize variables etc.). Also some things about good way to write automated tests.
Problem First, when I opened the book (got PDF version) I was quite surprised how short it is (99 pages). And this was even bigger surprise, that there's only about half of the book for the 'beginners' (meaning: for 'non-developers' in a sense). The chapters from 1 to 3 and 5 offer new RF users brief introduction to framework and how it can be used in different ways (different test file forms, different ways to initialize variables etc.). Also some things about good way to write automated tests. Problem might be, that there's time to time more little details than flowing text. Most problematic chapter is 4, which is 'Extending the Framework'. Chapter actually just lists couple of libraries that are made for Robot Framework, and not really 'extension writing' which I was expecting.
Over all I think books is easy to read, but same information can be obtained from free documentation using just a bit more work. Disclaimer: I got a review copy of the book from Packt. I think some of the reviewers (on Amazon) may have been a bit harsh in their reviews, so I'll be one of the few to provide a balanced assessment.
However, do note that I've read most of the book but skimmed over parts of it and have not looked at the accompanying source code that you have to download from the internet. Therefore, the review is not a complete review of the whole content of the book including the source code. This appears to possibly be the first book about Robot Framework (excludi I think some of the reviewers (on Amazon) may have been a bit harsh in their reviews, so I'll be one of the few to provide a balanced assessment.
However, do note that I've read most of the book but skimmed over parts of it and have not looked at the accompanying source code that you have to download from the internet. Therefore, the review is not a complete review of the whole content of the book including the source code. This appears to possibly be the first book about Robot Framework (excluding the framework's user & quick start guides), which I think is a positive thing regardless of the quality of the book. As a whole, the book is nicely written for someone not familiar with Robot Framework (RF) and for non-technical people.
It provides a good introduction about RF, delves into some of capabilities and benefits of RF, and is a good stepping stone to use & learn more about RF. It is a good bridge or companion to the RF project's existing User Guide and Quick Start guide, which provide more technical detail and information not covered by this book. For more advanced coverage of RF, look elsewhere, hopefully there will be such a book to cover that in the future.
Having said that, the book does have its downsides. As pointed out by others, there are some typos in the current/first edition of the book, not a whole lot, but a few here and there as I've seen. Understandable, but sadly that these were missed before publication. The organization of the book is decent, but could be improved, and the chapter titles don't reflect well against the actual topics in the chapters, at least from a technical user for what they expect to see based on the title alone as the content vs title doesn't quite fit descriptively. Only by reading the details of the chapter summary at beginning of chapter or in the Preface do you see what the chapter is really about (compared to its title). I also found the book a bit lacking in some areas in terms of subject matter or content. The section about Data Driven testing and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) testing could have benefited from elaboration with some actual test case examples and/or code implementation (in the book, not as external accompanying source code samples).
The BDD information I felt was too brief in coverage. In same area, the book mentions 'DSL' without actually defining the abbreviation (DSL = Domain Specific Language), which is bad form in technical writing as we don't expect the user to already know abbreviations. The handmaiden english subtitles.
The book also mentions RF generically without mentioning which version of RF is being covered at the time of publication/writing. I may be incorrect in assumption, but the author also might not be active with and well informed of the RF user and developer community.
I say this because while the book does mention some common & useful test libraries, there are some omissions whether by choice or ignorance. For example: AutoItLibrary (for desktop UI testing with free AutoIt tool), ranorex-robot-library (for desktop UI testing with Ranorex commercial tool) SimpleSikuli (Java test library alternative version of Sikuli integration that was covered in the book), SSH library. Another thing the author missed was the fact that the Remote Library interface/API of RF provides for much more than what was mentioned in the book, particularly that it can be used to interface RF to other languages, tools, platforms not natively supported by RF (Python/Jython/IronPython) and as such to execute tests in those areas as well. For example: (pure/native) Java (as opposed to through Jython), pure.NET as opposed to via IronPython, Ruby, Perl, PHP, and more. Furthermore, the book mentions that only the Python and Ruby versions of the (generic) remote server are implemented for users to make use of for remote libraries, and for anything else, one would have to create it themselves, though it is not necessarily hard to do so. But in reality, as of this review (and at least about 1-2 years before it), there have been other (generic) remote libaries server implementations already available (Java,.NET/C#, Perl, PHP, Clojure, node.js), so it is truly really easy to use remote libraries and for other platforms.
The author should have also put in some references that for more technical information and whatever not covered by the book, the reader can look to the RF user guide and discussion with the RF user/developer community via the online Google Groups, providing the links to them with the references. So given all this, to an (or a more) advanced/technical user, the book is not very helpful, and for what you can get for free with online searching, the RF user/developer community discussion group, and the framework's existing user guide, the price of the book may also seem extravagant. But I think it is a useful book that can be used to help try and convince upper management, non-technical business stakeholders to adopt RF, etc. I'd like to end the review with some positive points at least.
Unless one is well familiar with RF, there are some useful things that can be learned or be reminded of from this book. For me, I hadn't noticed that RF offered a randomization feature when executing test cases and test suites. And the coverage of the test configuration/data files like variable files was a helpful reminder to me. Last, I like the fact (at least what is stated in the book) that Packt publishing has a 'Packt Open Source Royalty Scheme, by which Packt gives a royalty to each Open Source project about whose software a book is sold'. Which would mean RF should get monetary donations from Packt for each copy of this book bought by somone. I wonder what happens in the case of refunds/returns by customers though. Does that get removed from the donation amount or Packt still passes that on to OSS projects for the 'initial' sale.
Maybe a future edition of the book will be more improved. And/or look forward to seeing an advanced coverage version of the book for RF for more advanced/technical readers. Recently I received an invitation/the request to review the book 'Robot Framework Test Automation' by Sumit Bisht about the Robot Framework. My first thought was not so positive, because it's short compared to other programming or IT-books. With short I mean it's just 99 pages (or 73 if you don't count cover page, index pages and so on). These 73 pages cover 5 chapters: Chapter 1 is about getting started with the Robot Framework. Inside this chapter are the different installation methods and star Recently I received an invitation/the request to review the book 'Robot Framework Test Automation' by Sumit Bisht about the Robot Framework.
My first thought was not so positive, because it's short compared to other programming or IT-books. With short I mean it's just 99 pages (or 73 if you don't count cover page, index pages and so on).
These 73 pages cover 5 chapters: Chapter 1 is about getting started with the Robot Framework. Inside this chapter are the different installation methods and startup commands of the test execution well explained. It also mentions why there is a need in acceptance tests. Here I would have liked to get a bit more information about how to install via the Python package installation method. For this method the Python-module easyinstall is needed, but this is not explained. I know this is not a book about Python itself, but still the user should in such case do 'wget -O - sudo python' Chapter 2: configuring a test project. Here the different formats for the tests are explained well like HTML, TSV, Plaintext,.
The author uses simple, understandable examples used for demonstrating the use of test cases, resource files, variables, Test Setup and Teardown. Chapter 3 is titled 'Further Test Customization': This chapter talks about tests re-usage, having loops and flow control in your tests. Further on it discusses user libraries and the usage of standard libraries (Collections, Dialogs, Operating System, Screenshots,.) with examples.
An interesting quote here 'unit test helps you to build the thing tight, whereas acceptance tests helps you build the right thing'. Chapter 4 is about using external libraries together with the Robot Framework. The libraries which are discusses are the Selenium, the Java and the Sikuli-library. Just like in the previous chapters several examples are given, but it's a pity that it's not mentioned that some of these commands need to be run as an administrator/sudo-user. Something which was completely new for me here was the interactive shell (REPL). Also it's not really mentioned how you can make your own external libraries, although they are used in the code examples.
Chapter 5 tackles the subject of reports The different report files and sections in the report are explained here. Also very useful information here on how to recreate and how to combine reports. Conclusion There is a saying 'Don't judge a book by it's cover', but in this case I'd like to say 'Don't judge a book by it's size'. As I said in my introduction it's quite thin, just 73 pages, but the information inside is very useful and can be applied well in practice. It is the only real book I know about the Robot Framework except the official documentation. After first reading the official documentation and then this book I'll have to say that this book is a better start if you want to get started with the Robot Framework Match between example code and examples in the book is not so good This book is not only for newbies to the Robot Framework, but also for people having already used it in production. This manual gave me several new insights.
Robot Framework Test Automation Pdf
However, I'll have to say that there are some beauty mistakes; mostly between the downloadable code and the examples in the book. Secondly, I'd like to see it extended with more information and examples about making your own libraries. To summarize I would recommend this book to anyone working with the Robot Framework or planning to do so.