ypasmk / robot-framework-docker

Docker image to run robot framework acceptance testing in a docker container

robot-framework-docker

Quick Start

Clone this repository

git clone [e-mail]:ypasmk/robot-framework-docker.git

Pull the image.

docker pull ypasmk/robot-framework

Run the tests

Method 1: use docker-compose

cd robot-framework-docker && docker-compose up

Method 2: use bash

cd robot-framework-docker && ./run_tests.sh

NOTE

You can run the tests without cloning the repository by creating a docker-compose.yml file with the following content:

version: '3.3'
services:
    test:
        network_mode: host
        image: ypasmk/robot-framework
        shm_size: "256M"
        environment:
            USERNAME: Ipatios Asmanidis
        volumes: [
           "$PWD/output:/output",
           "$PWD/suites:/suites",
           "$PWD/scripts:/scripts",
           "$PWD/reports:/reports"
        ]

Afterwards, run the following command within the directory of your docker-compose file:

docker-compose up

Contents

This image contains the following to facilitate robot testing

Xvfb

You can use it to start a visual display and fire up a browser for UI testing.

Example (suites/virtual_display.robot):

Start Virtual Display    1920    1080

Selenium2Library

More details here http://robotframework.org/Selenium2Library/Selenium2Library.html

Also have a look at suites/virtual_display.robot

HttpLibrary.HTTP

More details here https://github.com/peritus/robotframework-httplibrary

Example:

Create Http Context     api.some-end-point.com
GET                     /some/service/that/supports/get
Verify Status           200
${response}=            Get Response Body
[return]                ${response}

robotframework-sshlibrary

More details here http://robotframework.org/SSHLibrary/latest/SSHLibrary.html

robotframework-excellibrary

More details here http://navinet.github.io/robotframework-excellibrary/ExcelLibrary-KeywordDocumentation.html

ENJOY

For any requests or changes please open issues or create pull requests :)