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Testing has traditionally been a part of software development, and has always involved a lot of manual effort. It can be automated with Robot Framework, which offers numerous benefits from cost saving to increased quality assurance in the software delivery. This book will help you to start designing test suites and Automated Acceptance Tests. Helping you to get started with automating acceptance tests, this book will provide a detailed overview of acceptance test management practices and principles. You will also be introduced to advanced techniques that you can use to customize the test suite, along with helpful tips and tricks to extend and leverage it in a wide variety of scenarios. Starting with a detailed explanation of the need for automated acceptance test driven development, this guide will help you with an empty test project creation and execution for proof of concept, and validation of installation. This book will also cover the Robot Framework in detail, and will help you test desktop applications using Java Swing. You will gain an in-depth knowledge of tricky activities, such as setting up a test environment and using it with Selenium. You will also learn about other popular libraries, and how to test network protocols, web services, and databases. This book will cover the entire Robot Framework with real- world practical material to make its content informative and interesting. By the end of this book you will be able to write acceptance tests for desktop and web applications, as well as know how to extend acceptance testing in other scenarios that are commonly devoid of tests, and present the results appropriately.

Who is this book for?

If you are an automation engineer, QA engineer, developer or tester who is looking to get started with Robot Framework, as well as find a standardized testing solution, this book is ideal for you. No prior knowledge of Robot Framework or acceptance testing is required, although a basic knowledge of Python is required for few sections of the book.

What you will learn

Create and run a basic test over Robot Framework to validate the setup

Customize a test with reusable components and introduce test reuse

Identify the different files and tables used in tests

Extend the framework by using third party libraries to work with other tools

Parameterize the test cases and get data into the tests /color

Create derived reports using the report metadata

Use external resources to feed data into tests

Set up the Robot Framework and run its basic test

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Ray Robinson Sep 16, 2014

most of what is contained here can be found in the online docs and although it neatly brings everything together. It's not worth the price.

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marino punturieri Dec 18, 2013

This is the first book about Robot Frameworks as per my knowledge.This should be considered a simple and basic recap for any beginner but as some one already noticed it lacks in depth. Some important real life topics like "continuous integration" are left out.I appreciate the effort to put some example for a "real test" like web site automation, but again too few low level mandatory details seem lost.I would recommend it to anyone would like to have a quick and dirty introduction and would not bother to look on several web site to gather all details.Disclaimer: I got a review copy of the book from Packt.

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D. Luu Dec 09, 2013

I think some of the reviewers may have been a bit harsh in their reviews, so I'll be one of the few to provide a balanced assessment. However, do note that I've read most of the book but skimmed over parts of it and have not looked at the accompanying source code that you have to download from the internet. Therefore, the review is not a complete review of the whole content of the book including the source code.This appears to possibly be the first book about Robot Framework (excluding the framework's user & quick start guides), which I think is a positive thing regardless of the quality of the book. As a whole, the book is nicely written for someone not familiar with Robot Framework (RF) and for non-technical people. It provides a good introduction about RF, delves into some of capabilities and benefits of RF, and is a good stepping stone to use & learn more about RF. It is a good bridge or companion to the RF project's existing User Guide and Quick Start guide, which provide more technical detail and information not covered by this book. For more advanced coverage of RF, look elsewhere, hopefully there will be such a book to cover that in the future.Having said that, the book does have its downsides. As pointed out by others, there are some typos in the current/first edition of the book, not a whole lot, but a few here and there as I've seen. Understandable, but sadly that these were missed before publication. The organization of the book is decent, but could be improved, and the chapter titles don't reflect well against the actual topics in the chapters, at least from a technical user for what they expect to see based on the title alone as the content vs title doesn't quite fit descriptively. Only by reading the details of the chapter summary at beginning of chapter or in the Preface do you see what the chapter is really about (compared to its title).I also found the book a bit lacking in some areas in terms of subject matter or content. The section about Data Driven testing and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) testing could have benefited from elaboration with some actual test case examples and/or code implementation (in the book, not as external accompanying source code samples). The BDD information I felt was too brief in coverage. In same area, the book mentions "DSL" without actually defining the abbreviation (DSL = Domain Specific Language), which is bad form in technical writing as we don't expect the user to already know abbreviations. The book also mentions RF generically without mentioning which version of RF is being covered at the time of publication/writing.I may be incorrect in assumption, but the author also might not be active with and well informed of the RF user and developer community. I say this because while the book does mention some common & useful test libraries, there are some omissions whether by choice or ignorance. For example: AutoItLibrary (for desktop UI testing with free AutoIt tool), ranorex-robot-library (for desktop UI testing with Ranorex commercial tool) SimpleSikuli (Java test library alternative version of Sikuli integration that was covered in the book), SSH library. Another thing the author missed was the fact that the Remote Library interface/API of RF provides for much more than what was mentioned in the book, particularly that it can be used to interface RF to other languages, tools, platforms not natively supported by RF (Python/Jython/IronPython) and as such to execute tests in those areas as well. For example: (pure/native) Java (as opposed to through Jython), pure .NET as opposed to via IronPython, Ruby, Perl, PHP, and more. Furthermore, the book mentions that only the Python and Ruby versions of the (generic) remote server are implemented for users to make use of for remote libraries, and for anything else, one would have to create it themselves, though it is not necessarily hard to do so. But in reality, as of this review (and at least about 1-2 years before it), there have been other (generic) remote libaries server implementations already available (Java, .NET/C#, Perl, PHP, Clojure, node.js), so it is truly really easy to use remote libraries and for other platforms. The author should have also put in some references that for more technical information and whatever not covered by the book, the reader can look to the RF user guide and discussion with the RF user/developer community via the online Google Groups, providing the links to them with the references.So given all this, to an (or a more) advanced/technical user, the book is not very helpful, and for what you can get for free with online searching, the RF user/developer community discussion group, and the framework's existing user guide, the price of the book may also seem extravagant. But I think it is a useful book that can be used to help try and convince upper management, non-technical business stakeholders to adopt RF, etc.I'd like to end the review with some positive points at least. Unless one is well familiar with RF, there are some useful things that can be learned or be reminded of from this book. For me, I hadn't noticed that RF offered a randomization feature when executing test cases and test suites. And the coverage of the test configuration/data files like variable files was a helpful reminder to me. Last, I like the fact (at least what is stated in the book) that Packt publishing has a "Packt Open Source Royalty Scheme, by which Packt gives a royalty to each Open Source project about whose software a book is sold". Which would mean RF should get monetary donations from Packt for each copy of this book bought by somone. I wonder what happens in the case of refunds/returns by customers though. Does that get removed from the donation amount or Packt still passes that on to OSS projects for the "initial" sale.Maybe a future edition of the book will be more improved. And/or look forward to seeing an advanced coverage version of the book for RF for more advanced/technical readers.

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Amazon Customer Dec 09, 2013

The book is a quick and easy 100 pages read that can be useful to those who find the user guide a bit to dry.First chapter helps go through the installation steps but fails at giving a clear picture of Robot Framework ecosystem: a diagram shows a “testing tool” component being the one that actually target the SUT while Robot Framework is more on the user end side as a coordinator. This is just one way to use Robot (a way that is later described more in details in section about Robot+Selenium and Robot+Sikuli). But Robot can be used to test directly the SUT through its native libraries or some custom libraries.Second chapter is quite clear about the different file format and the organization of the test portfolio. Third chapter treats the actual creation of test cases with some data about syntax and libraries, but it lacks some examples going from the easiest to more complex cases. Chapter four discuss Robot association with other testing tools (like mentioned before) and finally the last chapter helps generating standard and custom reports.A topic that is not covered is who is the “ideal” Robot Framework user. It is implied in chapter three that “developer and stakeholders” will collaborate in writing the tests. My experience is rather than a tool like Robot Framework is a very good fit for a QA/testers team that is distinct from dev and stakeholders. For such a team it makes sense to have a specific tool/DSL for testing rather than coding the functional/acceptance tests in the langage of the product.Globally though the book is a good read, it fails at being a real “missing manual” compared to what the User Guide already offers. The book would maybe have benefit from taking an alternate approach with much more example, like a cookbook, and more experience from the field. Anyway, thanks to Sumit and Packt for the effort in sharing some knowledge about Robot Framework!

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DJ Nov 22, 2013

The "In Detail" description of this book is extremely well written, deceivingly so.I would not use words like "in depth" to describe this book.Upon receipt I flipped through the pages briefly, looked at a couple of the examples, and immediately boxed the book for return.There might be a few hints, tips, and tricks, but there's really not much beyond a very basic primer. You could easily read the robot framework documentation online in a couple hours, do a few google searches, and you'll be well beyond what this book has to offer.

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