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# Robot framework testing

By [Jochen D.](https://testingbot.com/about/jochen-d)2015-09-23

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With Robot Framework you can build easy to read test cases, which can then be run via Selenium WebDriver on our Selenium Grid.

It allows using keyword driven, behaviour driven approaches and provides reports in HTML format.

## Setting up Robot Framework

First you have to make sure you've installed [pip](https://pypi.org/project/pip/). To install the other libs, please run: `pip install robotframework-selenium2library requests`

## Running your first test

Below is an example on how to run a simple test on Firefox. When the test has finished, the test name and success state is sent to TestingBot so you can see the test success/failures in our dashboard.

Save the example below in a `test.txt` file:

```python
***Settings***

Library Selenium2Library
Library TestingBot

Test Setup Open test browser
Test Teardown Close test browser

***Variables***

${CREDENTIALS} key:secret (get these for free from testingbot)

***Test Cases***

Simple Test
    Go to https://www.google.com
    Page should contain Google

***Keywords***

Open test browser
    Open browser about: firefox
    ... remote_url=http://${CREDENTIALS}@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub
    ... desired_capabilities=browserName:firefox,version:62  

Close test browser
    ... Report TestingBot status
    ... ${SUITE_NAME} | ${TEST_NAME}
    ... ${TEST_STATUS} ${CREDENTIALS}
    Close all browsers
```

Save this code in `TestingBot.py`:

```python
import re
import requests
import base64

from robot.api import logger
from robot.libraries.BuiltIn import BuiltIn

def report_testingbot_status(name, status, credentials):
    selenium = BuiltIn().get_library_instance('Selenium2Library')
    session_id = selenium._current_browser().session_id

    token = base64.b64encode(credentials)
    payload = {'test[name]': name,
               'test[success]': int(status == 'PASS')}
    headers = {'Authorization': 'Basic {0}'.format(token)}

    url = 'https://api.testingbot.com/v1/tests/{0}'.format(session_id)
    response = requests.put(url, data=payload, headers=headers)
    assert response.status_code == 200, response.text
```

To run the test, run this command: `pybot test.txt` Once the test has finished running, you will see it in the [TestingBot member dashboard](https://testingbot.com/members).

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