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1.1. Your first test case

Goal

  • Create a new test case named Greetings in the 01-Greetings suite, which logs your name.

Solution

Hints

You need to define your test cases in the *** Test Cases *** test data section.

Click here to learn more about test data sections.

Robot Framework has a standard library named BuiltIn, which provides the most generic keywords. This library is imported automatically, its keywords are accessible anytime.

Click here to learn more about Log keyword.

Solution: tests/01-greetings/01-greetings.robot
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*** Test Cases ***
Greetings
    Log    Your Name

Results

How to execute a test case?

Use the robot command. You need to define a folder or a file which contains at least one test case. Click here to learn more about command line options.

Inside the tests folder, execute the following command.

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robot .

The output should be something like this:

==============================================================================
Tests
==============================================================================
Tests.01-Greetings
==============================================================================
Tests.01-Greetings.01-Greetings
==============================================================================
Greetings                                                             | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tests.01-Greetings.01-Greetings                                       | PASS |
1 critical test, 1 passed, 0 failed
1 test total, 1 passed, 0 failed
==============================================================================
Tests.01-Greetings                                                    | PASS |
1 critical test, 1 passed, 0 failed
1 test total, 1 passed, 0 failed
==============================================================================
Tests                                                                 | PASS |
1 critical test, 1 passed, 0 failed
1 test total, 1 passed, 0 failed
==============================================================================
Output:  /tmp/robot_course/tests/output.xml
Log:     /tmp/robot_course/tests/log.html
Report:  /tmp/robot_course/tests/report.html

You can check the generated log.html file to see how your test case worked.

Last update: June 22, 2020