A small exercise

To demonstrate the Robot Framework, we will create a simple dummy application as follows:.

1. Create a folder named simpleapp, this will serve as the application root folder.

2. Inside this, create a folder named testsuites, this will contain all the test configuration files.

3. Within the testsuites folder create a file, Test_Case_1.txt, with the following contents:

   ***Test Cases***
   
   First Test Action  log  this is a basic test

   Note

   Note that there are two spaces before and after the log keyword.

4. Now run the project by calling Pybot script and passing the testsuites folder as an argument. You should get something similar to the following screenshot:

   

This confirms that the project has run successfully. You can view the results and log from generated HTML pages and perform future calculations over the data by using the XML file.

As we used a simple log statement, you get a logged message in the out log, as shown in the following screenshot:

The generated XML is also easy-to-read (as shown in the following screenshot), which can then be used by any other external tool as an input parameter—thereby reducing the human intervention between different stages of testing if this process is also automated.