Robot Framework is a generic open source automation framework. It can be used for test automation and robotic process automation (RPA).
You can find your username and access key here (https://www.lambdatest.com/capabilities-generator/).
You can now replace the username and access key here in the Resources/Common.robot file:
http://%{LT_USERNAME}:%{LT_ACCESS_KEY}@hub.lambdatest.com/wd/hub
Let’ start with a simple Selenium Remote Webdriver test first. The Robot script below tests a simple to-do application with basic functionalities like mark items as done, add items in list, calculate total pending items etc.
Feature: Test to add item Scenario: Test sample-todo-app Given I go to sample-todo-app to add item Then I Click on first checkbox and second checkbox When I enter item to add When I click add button Then I should verify the added item
Now here is the sample test file which is to be executed for the automation test through LambdaTest
*** Settings ***
Resource ../Resources/Common.robot
Test Setup Common.Open test browser
Test Teardown Common.Close test browser
*** Variables ***
*** Test Cases ***
Example of connecting to Lambdatest via Robot Framework
[Timeout] ${TIMEOUT}
Page should contain element name:li1
Page should contain element name:li2
Click button name:li1
Click button name:li2
Input text id:sampletodotext Yey Let's add it to list
Click button id:addbutton
${response} Get Text xpath=/html/body/div/div/div/ul/li[6]/span
Should Be Equal As Strings ${response} Yey Let's add it to list
Here is common.robot file to setup mandatory details to run at LambdaTest. You would need to your LambdaTest authentication credentials(Access key & Username). You need to update these credentials in the /Resources/Common.robot file.
*** Settings ***
Library Selenium2Library
Library LambdaTestStatus.py
*** Variables ***
@{_tmp}
... browserName: ${browserName},
... platform: ${platform},
... version: ${version},
... visual: ${visual},
... network: ${network},
... console: ${console},
... name: RobotFramework Lambda Test
${BROWSER} ${ROBOT_BROWSER}
${CAPABILITIES} ${EMPTY.join(${_tmp})}
${REMOTE_URL} http://%{LT_USERNAME}:%{LT_ACCESS_KEY}@hub.lambdatest.com/wd/hub //Please specify your lambdatest username and access key here
${TIMEOUT} 3000
*** Keywords ***
Open test browser
[Timeout] ${TIMEOUT}
Open browser https://lambdatest.github.io/sample-todo-app/ browser=${BROWSER}
... remote_url=${REMOTE_URL}
... desired_capabilities=${CAPABILITIES}
Close test browser
Run keyword if '${REMOTE_URL}' != ''
... Report Lambdatest Status
... ${TEST_NAME}
... ${TEST_STATUS}
Close all browsers
You would need to execute the below command in your terminal/cmd.
make test_Windows_10_chrome_68
You can configure your parallel tests capabilites at Makefile:
run_all_in_parallel:
make -j test_Windows_10_edge_18 test_OX_X_10_11_firefox_59 test_Windows_10_chrome_68
test_Windows_10_edge_18:
robot --variable platform:"Windows 10" --variable browserName:MicrosoftEdge --variable version:18.0 --variable ROBOT_BROWSER:chrome --variable visual:false --variable network:false --variable console:false Tests/sample_test.robot
test_OX_X_10_11_firefox_59:
robot --variable platform:"macOS Sierra" --variable browserName:firefox --variable version:59.0 --variable ROBOT_BROWSER:firefox --variable visual:false --variable network:false --variable console:false Tests/sample_test.robot
test_Windows_10_chrome_68:
robot --variable platform:"Windows 10" --variable browserName:chrome --variable version:68.0 --variable ROBOT_BROWSER:chrome --variable visual:false --variable network:false --variable console:false Tests/sample_test.robot
To perform parallel testing on LambdaTest Selenium grid use the below command:
make run_all_in_parallel
Below we see a screenshot that depicts our Robot code is running over different browsers i.e Chrome, Firefox and Safari on the LambdaTest Selenium Grid Platform. The results of the test script execution along with the logs can be accessed from the LambdaTest Automation dashboard.
To help you perform cross browser testing of your locally stored web pages, LambdaTest provides an SSH(Secure Shell) tunnel connection with the name Lambda Tunnel. With Lambda Tunnel, you can test your locally hosted files before you make them live over the internet. You could even perform cross browser testing from different IP addresses belonging to various geographic locations. You can also use LambdaTest Tunnel to test web-apps and websites that are permissible inside your corporate firewall.
- Set tunnel value to True in test capabilities
OS specific instructions to download and setup tunnel binary can be found at the following links.
After setting tunnel you can also see the active tunnel in our LambdaTest dashboard:
