Standard libraries

The Robot Framework provides various keywords, which have been discussed so far. These are contained in the builtIn library and are available to any test by default. In addition to these, there are certain extra keywords that are part of the framework which are bundled as separate libraries and to use them, an explicit reference needs to be provided without any installation. These libraries are as follows:

• Collections

• Dialogs

• Operating System

• Process

• Screenshot

• String

• Telnet

• XML

Collections

This library uses the supplied lists and dictionaries from an external Python file and performs various operations, such as comparison and modification over it. Some keywords from the builtin library that operate over lists and dictionaries can also be used in conjunction with this library. For example, consider the following example where the Python file defines the following variables:

details = [1,'ssh', .034, 'main-repository']
user = {'name':'john doe', 'age': 21, 'account':'basic'}

These...