Awesome Robot Framework 
A curated list of awesome Robot Framework resources and libraries
Contents
Libraries
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Standard Libraries
- BuiltIn Contains generic often needed keywords. Imported automatically and thus always available.
- Collections Contains keywords for handling lists and dictionaries.
- DateTime Supports creating and verifying date and time values as well as calculations between them.
- Dialogs Supports pausing the test execution and getting input from users.
- OperatingSystem Enables performing various operating system related tasks.
- Process Supports executing processes in the system.
- Screenshot Provides keywords to capture and store screenshots of the desktop.
- String Library for manipulating strings and verifying their contents.
- Telnet Supports connecting to Telnet servers and executing commands on the opened connections.
- XML Library for verifying and modifying XML documents.
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Mid level (framework) Libraries
- Android Library (keyword documentation) Library for all your Android automation needs. It uses Calabash Android internally.
- AnywhereLibrary Library for testing Single-Page Apps (SPA). Uses Selenium Webdriver and Appium internally.
- Appium Library Library for Android- and iOS-testing. It uses Appium internally.
- DjangoLibrary Library for Django, a Python web framework.
- Drupal Library Library targeting Drupal sites, built on top of Selenium2Library.
- Eclipse Library Library for testing Eclipse RCP applications using SWT widgets.
- ImageHorizonLibrary (keyword documentation) Cross-platform, pure Python library for GUI automation based on image recognition.
- iOS Library Library for all your iOS automation needs. It uses Calabash iOS Server internally.
- Page Object Library Library that makes it possible to use the page object pattern when testing web pages.
- Swing Library (keyword documentation) Library for testing Java applications with Swing GUI.
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Low level (driver) Librabries
- AngularJS Library An AngularJS extention library to Robotframework's Selenium2Library.
- Archive Library Library for handling zip- and tar-archives.
- AutoIt Library Windows GUI testing library that uses AutoIt freeware tool as a driver.
- Database Library (Java) Java-based library for database testing. Usable with Jython.
- Database Library (Python) Python based library for database testing. Works with any Python interpreter, including Jython.
- Diff Library Library to diff two files together.
- Excel Library Library which provides keywords to allow opening, reading, writing and saving Excel files.
- FTP Library Library which makes it possible to test or use FTP server using Robot Framework keywords.
- HTTP Request (Java) Library for HTTP level testing using Apache HTTP client.
- HTTP Request (livetest) Library for HTTP level testing using livetest tool internally.
- HTTP Request (Requests) Library for HTTP level testing using Request internally.
- IMAP Library Library to test mail validation tasks.
- JSON Schema Library JSON Schema validation library for Robot Framework.
- MongoDB Library Library for interacting with MongoDB using pymongo.
- MQTT Library Library that provides keywords for testing on MQTT brokers.
- NcclientLibrary (keyword documentation) Robotframework NETCONF wrapper library of ncclient.
- Rammbock Generic network protocol test library that offers easy way to specify network packets and inspect the results of sent and received packets.
- Suds Library (keyword documentation) Library for functional testing of SOAP-based web services with Suds, a dynamic SOAP 1.1 client.
- UNIX Filesystem Library Unix filesystem testing for Robot Framework.
Tools
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Built-in tools
- DbBot DbBot is a tool to serialize Robot Framework test run results into a SQLite database.
- Rebot Tool for generating logs and reports based on XML outputs and for combining multiple outputs together.
- RoboMachine Model-based testing with Robot Framework.
- Libdoc Tool for generating keyword documentation for test libraries and resource files.
- Pabot Parallel executor for Robot Framework test cases.
- Testdoc Generates high level HTML documentation based on Robot Framework test cases.
- Tidy Tool for cleaning up and changing format of Robot Framework test data files.
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Build
- Jenkins plugin Plugin to collect and publish Robot Framework test results in Jenkins.
- Maven plugin Maven plugin for using Robot Framework.
- Ant task Ant task for running Robot Framework tests.
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Editors
- Atom Language Robot Framework Robot Framework syntax highlighting for Atom
- Autocomplete Robot Framework Robot Framework autocomplete for Atom
- Hyperclick Robot Framework Robot Framework hyperclick provider for Atom
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Verification
- Robot Framework Lint Linter for robot framework plain text files.
Resources
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Official Docs
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Books
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MOOCs
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Theses
- Data-Driven and Keyword-Driven Test Automation Frameworks Master's Thesis, Pekka Laukkanen
- Web Application Test Automation with Robot Framework Bachelor's Thesis, Jani Luostarinen
Trainings
- Face-to-Face
- Live