Robot Framework is an open source test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development. It follows different test case styles – keyword-driven, behaviour-driven and data-driven for writing test cases. This feature makes it very easy to understand. Test cases are written using keyword style in a tabular format. Robot Framework provides good support for external libraries, tools that are open source and can be used for automation. The most popular library used with Robot Framework is Selenium Library used for web development & UI testing.
This tutorial is designed for software programmers/testers, who want to learn the basics of Robot Framework automation testing in simple and easy ways. This tutorial will give you enough understanding on various functionalities of Robot Framework with suitable examples.
Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of testing concepts.