Summary

In this chapter, various files involved in the Robot Framework test creation and configuration together with the test naming conventions for different components such as, test suite, test case, and test action were discussed and the execution order management was detailed. As the test file format is quite different from any other test, it was exhaustively discussed as well. The use of variables as well as extra files are also discussed as these promote test code re-use and separate the test contents. Finally, the test environment management through test setup and teardown was discussed, which is essential if the tests require any prior dependency.

This serves as the groundwork for further work over the framework and as the basic syntaxes mentioned here are covered, the test automation and re-use will be discussed in the next chapter that continues from the work that has been covered here in order to automate and re-use existing tests.