Robotframework

Robotframework

Page documenting the setup and possible The use of robotframework for regression testing of SMEServer.

Page Initial creation by Brian J Read - 3rd March 2014

Installation

Initial installation is on the back of a Centos 6.5 (64 bit in my case) install. I use Virtual Box under Linux Mint 16.

1. Install Centos 6.5
2. login as root
3. Install robotframework:

yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel git-core –y
yum install python-devel -y
curl -o /tmp/ezsetup.py https://sources.rhodecode.com/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py
python /tmp/ezsetup.py
/usr/bin/easy_install pip
rm setuptools-*.tar.gz
pip install -i https://pypi.rhodecode.com/ --upgrade pip
pip install robotframework
pip install virtualenv

Install additional robot framework libraries:

pip install robotframework-selenium2library
pip install robotframework-ftplibrary
pip install robotframework-sshlibrary

Note that selenium needs a browser to drive, so you'll need to install a graphical GUI, you can do this by:

yum -y groupinstall "Desktop" "Desktop Platform" "X Window System" "Fonts"
yum -y groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools"
yum -y groupinstall "Internet Browser"
yum -y groupinstall "General Purpose Desktop"

Demos

There are ssh, ftp and web (selenium) demos at:

http://robotframework.googlecode.com/hg/doc/userguide/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html?r=2.8.4#demonstrations

https://bitbucket.org/robotframework/webdemo/wiki/Home#rst-header-starting-demo-application

https://robotframework-sshlibrary.googlecode.com/git-history/2.0/doc/SSHLibrary.html

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rf-ftp-py/files/1.2/FtpLibraryExample.txt/download

Making it test SMEServer

Marco Hess has made good progress with getting the framework to talk to an SMEServer.

His code is here:

https://franka.through-ip.com/git/?p=sme-test-automation.git;a=summary