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Optional ff_profile_dir is the path to the Firefox profile directory if you wish to overwrite the default profile Selenium uses. Notice that prior to SeleniumLibrary 3.0, the library contained its own profile that was used by default. The ff_profile_dir can also be an instance of the selenium.webdriver.FirefoxProfile . As a third option, it is possible to use FirefoxProfile methods and attributes to define the profile using methods and attributes in the same way as with options argument. Example: It is possible to use FirefoxProfile set_preference to define different profile settings. See options argument documentation in below how to handle backslash escaping.
If both are imported in a single suite (.robot file), you could open a page in both of them, but you cannot have one open a page and have the other library do anything on that page. You would have 2 browser instances that will be competely independent, one for SeleniumLibrary, one for Browser.
In Testing, it is essential to understand how to interact with the browser and locate the DOM elements. It is easy to perform actions in the input field with Robot Framework. In this blog, we will learn how to handle text boxes using the selenium library.
In this Blog, we learned how to interact with the textbox using the Selenium library in the Robot Framework. With the keywords provided by the robot framework and the library imported, we can locate the textbox, enter data, and test it.
Before Playwright, Selenium was the main browser automation library and SeleniumLibrary (i.e. robotframework-seleniumlibrary) was the Python package you would install for assisting on web-based testing using Robot Framework along with some specific keywords.
One difference that pops up, is that while SeleniumLibrary provides specific keywords for assertions (e.g. "Title Should Be"), while the Browser library approach is different: there are assertion operators (e.g. "==", "!=") that can be used for some keywords as long as they accept these as arguments (e.g. "Get Title == Welcome Page").Meanwhile, the assertion engine has been split to a separate library: robotframework-assertion-engine.
Robot Framework's Browser library is an interesting library that brings Playwright browser automation capabilities to RF users.This project uses a mix of technologies under the hood; that leads to additional requirements, including having a Node.js environment.I found out this mix interesting, as it involves different languages, frameworks, and protocols... and a workaround (using gRPC to communicate to a Node.js process) to access Playwright automation library.
The current architecture, as of v4.0.x of "robotframework-browser" package, could be eventually simplified in order to use the "playwright" Python package directly. As Kerkko Pelttari mentions, the current architecture allows to have greater control over the Playwright features available in the Browser library implementation. Depending on an upstream wrapper package for Python would add another dependency that could bring increased delays for releasing new versions; "wrapper libraries" have some lag from the main project (i.e. "playwright" NPM package in this case). Besides, changing the current architecture to use "playwright" package would also require significant refactoring. Anyway, we never know what the future brings, so it's always good to go over the release notes and the official documentation to be up to date.Playwright provides visible speed gains because it doesn't require starting new browser instances; we can simply create new contexts... and that is fast. In a simple scenario, I reduced the overall elapsed time by 50%.
The short is answer is yes. Because the robot framework is built on top of Python, the integration process is simple. Using the two together offers significant flexibility to your code and "helps you create your own custom keywords tha are better suited for your task than their Robot counterparts."
We are going to use the SeleniumLibrary. You can download the library from here. Inside the download you will find a directory called robotframework-seleniumlibrary-2.9.1/src/SeleniumLibrary. You need to copy that directory (i.e. SeleniumLibrary) into your project under src/test/resources/robotframework/libraries.
I was able to get exported cases to work in robot framework by downloading the keyword set seleniumLibrary.robot found here -Framework-Formatter/blob/master/resources/seleniumLibrary.robotThis project was a Robot framework formatter for selenium ide. This file will give you a keyword set that will convert selenese (Used by Selenium IDE and Katalon Automation broswer) into Selenium Library keywords used by Robot Framework.
I started by creating a maven project and adding to pom.xml the dependencies for selenium 3.4, testNG 6.8 and robot 3.0.2, then also added robot plugin 1.4.7. Finally, updated the project so maven downloads all the needed stuff so I don't have to install anything externally.
To test selenium (without robot) I created a textNG class in src>test>java, added a system property pointing to the chromedriver.exe file in my system and added a simple test that opens the browser and navigates to google. It worked, so now I want to add robot framework.
I created a file in src/test/robotframework/acceptance, with the following contents (although I've read somewhere that after selenium 2 the "start/stop selenium server" keywords are not necessary, but nothing changes if I remove them):
As for the very last question you have - "And how do I add implementations of my own keywords?", that topic is thoroughly covered in the user guide - link again.
Basically, you can create them in the *** Keywords *** section of a suite and reference them, put in an external keywords file (and import them in the settings section through Resource your_file.robot), create them in python and load as a library, or even - run them as a service on a node and access with RPC calls. I.e. a vast topic :)
Selenium is a library (some call it a web driver) and Robot is a test automation framework that uses libraries. With Robot, you can run a variety of automated tests; Both UI element-based and API tests, you can run a test with the help of the math library and a test that validates if the element exists on the page, with the assistance of Selenium Web driver.
Robot Framework is an open-source test automation framework that is simple to use with minimal programming. It is supported by the Robot framework foundation and works on all types of operating systems. The robot framework comes with a simple tabular format i.e. RIDE editor, where the test cases are written using the keyword format. Writing test cases using keywords is easier by adding/installing external libraries.
Library Keywords are keywords that come from the library we import in Robot Framework. We will now take a look at the Selenium library, which helps us interact with the browser. We will discuss some of the important keywords associated with selenium library.
User-defined keywords can be created to perform a particular action in the test case or it can also be created using the library keywords and built-in keywords in robot framework. We will work on an example and see how we can create keywords for our test case.
Robot Framework is used for robotic process automation and acceptance testing. This framework is also an open-source automation framework. Robot framework is a platform-independent project and application with a growing ecosystem that includes libraries and external tools. GitHub can be used for accessing the source code of this framework, and the maintainers handle even the guidelines for contributing to it. On the other hand, Selenium is an open-source and freeware automation tool that is very much popular currently. Selenium is very much beneficial for test automation. Web applications can easily be tested by enabling record and playback and can also run various scripts over different browsers. In this topic, we are going to learn about the Robot framework vs Selenium.
On the basis of the above article, we understood the concept of robot framework and selenium. We went through the major differences between Selenium and robot framework. These differences would help the developers in deciding which amongst selenium and robot framework is better for their specified task.
Robot Framework is an open-source acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development framework. For writing test cases, it uses three separate test case styles: keyword-driven, behaviour-driven, and data-driven. This characteristic makes it really simple to comprehend. In a tabular structure, test cases are written in keyword language. External libraries and open source technologies that can be utilized for automation are well supported by the Robot Framework. Robot framework is compatible with all operating systems. Selenium Library, which is used for web development and UI testing, is the most popular library used with Robot Framework.
The syntax you'll undoubtedly employ to incorporate the Robot Framework into your project is equally simple to use and comprehend. The functions wrapped in this module are built in a highly human-friendly manner, so even someone with no technical knowledge can use them and accomplish great things. In the form of a code library, the framework's capabilities are expanded into the Java and Python programming languages.
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