Summary

This chapter dealt with the philosophy and style of writing the tests. As the tests should be written with automation in mind, both the internal and external re-use through iteration and parameterization of test cases as well as getting data into the tests was covered as these are amongst the important things to consider while going forward with the automation. Next, all three different writing styles consisting of keyword, data, and behavior driven tests was covered followed with brief discussion of importance of behavior-driven development and comparison with other development tools currently in popular use. This chapter provides all the remaining portions of the Robot Framework library and you can now confidently begin writing tests that can be automated and provide testing for small to large enterprise software systems by using the wide variety of tools and support provided within the framework itself. In order to extend the capabilities of the framework and make it usable with...