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Robot Framework is a generic open-source automation framework. It can be used for test automation and robotic process automation (RPA).
With 5000+ stars and 1500+ forks on GitHub, the Robot framework has been a go-to option for many organizations who are aiming for Agile and Test Driven Development (TDD) where developers should write functional code only when there is a test that has failed. The robot framework allows acceptance testing, behavior-driven testing, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD).
It offers an extensible keyword-driven approach to perform automation testing. The learning curve is simple as you don’t need to have programming experience to get started with the Robot framework.
Robot Framework supports numerous libraries which can be used out-of-the-box. But what if we need functionality which is custom to our application? In that case, we can write our own custom library. In this post, we will take a look at how we can share keywords between Test Suites and how we can create our own custom Robot Framework library.
In our previous posts Automated Acceptance Testing With Robot Framework and How to Write Data Driven Tests With Robot Framework, we learned the basics of Robot Framework. We also learned how to write keywords in order to reuse commonly used functionality between test cases. All of this remained in one Test Suite, but what if you have created keywords which you also want to use in other Test Suites? We will explain how to make use of resource files and how to create custom Robot Framework Python libraries in order to share common keywords between Test Suites.
Before we start, we must advise you that in this article we are not going to cover specific details about testing techniques, for that we understand that are many reputable sources on the internet.
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