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Robot Framework Automation

Course outline

5 days
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Duration

5 days

Objective

To achieve Test Automation using Robot Framework – Selenium/Excel/DB/AutoIT and also CI/CD process.

Prerequisite

Basic knowledge of Python programming is an added advantage.

Overview

  • Origin & History
  • Features & Capabilities
  • Robot Framework – Libraries - Selenium

Installation & Configuration

  • Command Line & Path Basics
  • Install Python & PIP
  • Install Robot Framework & Libraries
  • Install Desired Browsers
  • Install Selenium Web Drivers (IE and Chrome)
  • Install Selenium Webdriver for Firefox
  • Install Eclipse + RED Plugin
  • Install PyCharm IDE + Robot Plugin / RIDE
  • Create Base Scripts Directory

Create first Script

  • Organizing Your Project Files
  • Sections of the Script File
  • Write Test Steps- Part 1
  • An Important IE Precondition Setting
  • Run the Script and Examine Results
  • Write Test Steps- Part 2
  • Locators Primer

Exploring the Robot Framework Libraries

  • BuiltIn (Log, Verifications, Repeat)
  • DateTime
  • Collections
  • String
  • Dialogs (Pause for Manual Steps/Data Entry
  • OperatingSystem (Folders & Files)

Day 1 &Day 2

Selenium

Selenium Introduction

  • Selenium History
  • Migrating to WebDriver latest Version
  • Selenium 2.0 and 3.0 WebDriver Architecture
  • Selenium IDE

Locator Techniques& Tools used

  • Preview Browser Add-ons overview to identify elements
  • Locator Techniques : XPath identification, CSS identification, Name ,ID, ClassName, LinkText,-Handling links
  • XPath, CSS Validation using chrome and javascripts

Basic Concepts for first WebDriver program

  • WebDriver Interface explanation and Invoking Browser
  • Basic Methods of WebDriver
  • How to run tests in Google Chrome, Firefox, edge and IE

Web UI

  • Handle Dynamic dropdowns with WebDriver API
  • Handling Static dropdowns with Select WebDriver API
  • Handling Checkboxes with WebDriver API
  • Handling Radio buttons with Customized XPath
  • Handling Radio button dynamically- real time examples
  • Types of Alerts present and Methods to handle them
  • Handling Alerts using WebDriver API
  • Web Elements Validation
  • End to End Practice Exercise

Real Time Exercises (end to end Programming)

  • Test Cases- Practice Exercise
  • Exercise 1.1-Limiting WebDriver scope
  • Getting Count of links in the pages ,sections
  • Testcases-Practice Exercise-2
  • Exercise 2.1-Dynamic data in Websites
  • Exercise 2.2-Dynamic Links Handling
  • Exercise 2.3-Validations & checkpoints

ADVANCED WAYS-locating objects

  • writing Customized XPath Using Attributes
  • Writing customized XPath Using Tagnames Traversing
  • Css Selectors locators

Techniques to automate ADVANCNED Web UI

  • Handling Ajax/Mouse Interactions
  • Handling java script actions
  • Actions class-real time example
  • Handling Multiple Windows
  • Window Handle concepts-real time example
  • Live Example on working with Child windows
  • Handling ul li Tags in Selenium
  • How to handle Frames?
  • Frames Techniques-real time example

Practical problems and Methods to handle them with Selenium

  • How to handle table Grids in webpage
  • Techniques used for table grid-Real time example
  • How to overcome Synchronization problems
  • Maximizing window and deleting cookies
  • Handling HTTPS certifications
  • How to troubleshoot if it is not invoking in Firefox
  • Killing the Process and Cookies using Selenium
  • How to take Screenshots in Selenium

Day 3

Handing dynamic pages using JavaScript

  • How to handle forms using JavaScript.
  • Techniques used for handling dynamic dropdown
  • Validation of XPath and CSS using JavaScript
  • Getting video content using JavaScript
  • Handling videos using JavaScript

AutoIt Library

  • What is AutoIt?
  • Download and Install
  • Finding windows/ on screen Element with AutoIt
  • Writing scripts in AutoIt
  • Managing Operations in AutoIt

Framework Design: A framework will be designed from scratch after Selenium.

Introducing User-Defined Keywords

  • Break the Script into Keywords
  • Moving Keywords to Resource Files
  • Adding Set Up and Tear Down
  • Overview of Page Objects
  • Demo: Create a Page Object
  • Increase Readability Using Gherkin

Use Variables to Centralize Data

  • Scalar Variables
  • List Variables
  • Variable Scope
  • Passing Variables to Keywords
  • Supplying Script Input Data at Runtime
  • Modify Our Project with Variables

Page Object Model

Data Driver Library – Excel, CSV

Day 4

Database Library (MS SQL, MySQL)

Make the Script More Readable

  • Style: Procedural vs. Gherkin

Function Library

  • Python binding
  • Pdf comparison
  • Image comparison
  • Customizing libraries required for projects.

Script Running Options

  • Running from Pycharm / RIDE
  • Running from a Command Window
  • Running from a Batch File
  • Running from the Task Scheduler

Command Line Options

  • Running all test
  • Running test with tags
  • Running failed test case
  • Other test control command line options

Day 5

Pabot for parallel running

Supporting Tools

  • Library documentation tool (libdoc)
  • Test data documentation tool (testdoc)
  • Test data clean-up tool (tidy)
  • Other tools distributed with Robot Framework
  • External tools

GIT-Jenkins- CI/CD Pipeline

  • GIT Introduction
  • GIT Installation
  • Working with GIT
  • GIT Commands
  • GIT Extensions tool
  • Why Jenkins? & where it going to help us in Framework design?
  • Installing & Configuration of Jenkins
  • Creating Jenkins project and integrating Existing Framework
  • Running the Framework and Scheduling it from Jenkins

JIRA Configuration

  • X-Ray plugin Introduction
  • Importing the test result to JIRA
  • Appending test result with tags and existing issue type

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.