Robot Framework Test Automation: Level 2

Learn intermediate and advanced test automation techniques for Robot Framework, an open-source, keyword-driven test automation framework.

Welcome

• About me
• Overview of Robot Framework Level 2

1. Quickly Turbocharge Your Level 1 Skills

• Getting help from other Robot Framework users
• PyCharm Find Usages feature
• PyCharm TODO feature
• Advanced command-line options
• Force test execution order
• Randomize test execution order
• Get more detailed logs
• Automatic variables
• Return values from keywords
• Create custom keyword libraries

2. Keeping Your Tools Up to Date

• Tools overview
• Updating Python and PIP
• Examine library versions
• Update related Robot Framework libraries
• Update browsers and check the system
• Update web drivers and check the system
• What to do if you have problems
• Updating your IDE and plugin

3. Web Locators: Preconditions

• Web locators preconditions overview
• HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap overview
• HTML tags
• HTML attributes
• CSS
• Bootstrap
• Summary

4. Web Locators: Fundamentals

• Locator selection tool
• Basic locators overview and demo
• Install the tools
• The importance of specific locators
• Real-world troubleshooting example

5. Web Locators: Advanced

• Web locators advanced overview
• Basic XPath and CSS syntax
• Absolute relationships (XPath and CSS)
• Relative relationships (XPath and CSS)
• Partial locators: starts-with
• Partial locators: ends-with
• Partial locators: contains
• Scenario: Find and use multiple elements

6. Script Control Flow

• Script control overview
• IF/ELSE: Making decisions
• Loops

7. Advanced Data Management

• Dictionary overview
• Dictionary practical example: URLs
• Dictionary practical example: Users

8. Data-Driven Tests: Overview

• Overview and demo
• Tour the starter project

9. Data-Driven Tests: Built-In Method

• Built-in capabilities

10. Data-Driven Tests: CSV (Excel)

• Overview of the steps
• Create the CSV data file
• Custom CSV parsing library
• Create our data manager
• Call the data manager
• Create the looping keyword file
• Refactor data entry steps
• Run and debug
• Add error handling

11. Multi-App End-to-End Scenario

• Multi-app end-to-end overview
• Scenario overview
• Refactor with directories
• Add a simple test for site two
• Create the basic end-to-end script
• Centralize the browser and URL variables