Robot Framework katas

Requirements

In this series of exercises we're going to run several automated tests against web application. To do that we're going to need to have the following items installed:

• Python 3: https://www.python.org/downloads/
  • Remember to add Python folder to PATH environment variable.
• Pip for Python 3
  • Windows: https://www.howtogeek.com/197947/how-to-install-python-on-windows/
  • Linux: sudo apt-get install python3-pip && pip3 install --upgrade pip
  • MacOS: brew install python pip is already included
• Browser
  • Chrome and chromedriver: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
  • Or Firefox and geckodriver: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
• System under test
  • Open a new terminal window, change directory to this repository root folder and run the application with:
    • python server/server.py

Recommendations:

• In order to make installing with pip easier, use virtualenv (https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/)
  • Short instruction to virtualenv use

  pip install virtualenv --user
  virtualenv <choose_a_folder_name>
  source <chosen_folder_name>/bin/activate`
  

• use webdrivermanager to manage browser drivers

  pip install webdrivermanager
  webdrivermanager firefox
  webdrivermanager chrome
  

Protip (if not using webdrivermanager): Add the chromedriver or geckodriver (after download) to a location that is in PATH environment variable. To see what folders are included you can use

• MacOS/Linux: in terminal run command: echo $PATH
• Windows:
  • in Command Prompt run command: echo %PATH
  • in PowerShell run command: echo $env:path

Get started

After you have installed the requirements check the Getting started exercise and proceed with the exercises