RobotFramework-Zoomba

What is RobotFramework-Zoomba?

Robotframework-Zoomba is a collection of libraries spanning GUI, REST API, and SOAP API automation using Robot Framework. These libraries are extensions of existing libraries SeleniumLibrary, Requests, and SudsLibrary.

Looking for our extension of AppiumLibrary (DesktopLibrary and MobileLibrary)? Check out our new repo RobotFramework-ApplicationLibrary!

Zoomba adds a significant amount of data validation support for REST and SOAP API and extends functionality for typical Web GUI automation.

As a team beginning the journey of automation with Robot Framework - we found that there was some time spent ramping up our libraries and Robotframework-Zoomba aims to make that process easier for new projects.

See the Keyword Documentation for the API, SOAP, or GUI library for more specific information about the functionality.

Example tests can be found in the samples directory.

Some Features of the Library

GUI Library:

When working with web pages of varying load times you probably find yourself running a lot of calls like so:

Wait Until Page Contains Element      locator
Click Element                         locator

For ease of use we have combined a lot of these into simple one line keywords:

Wait For And Click Element      locator
Wait For And Click Text         text
Wait For And Select From List   list_locator    target_locator

Another keyword that is particularly useful is for when you are waiting for javascript to complete on a page before proceeding:

Wait For And Click Element       locator that leads to a new page with javascript     
Wait Until Javascript Is Complete
Wait For And Click Element       locator

API Library:

This library wraps the requests library so we have created a set of keywords to easily allow users to make requests in a single keyword:

Call Get Request       ${headers_dictionary}    endpoint    query_string
Call Post Request      ${headers_dictionary}    endpoint    query_string     ${data_payload}

After receiving your data we made it incredibly easy to validate it. Validate Response Contains Expected Response takes your received request and compares it to your expected data. If there are any errors found it will report line by line what they are.

Validate Response Contains Expected Response    ${json_actual_response}      ${json_expected_response}

If there is any mismatched data it will look something like this:

Key(s) Did Not Match:
------------------
Key: pear
Expected: fish
Actual: bird
------------------
Full List Breakdown:
Expected: [{'apple': 'cat', 'banana': 'dog', 'pear': 'fish'}, {'apple': 'cat', 'banana': 'mice', 'pear': 'bird'}, {'apple': 'dog', 'banana': 'mice', 'pear': 'cat'}]
Actual: [{'apple': 'cat', 'banana': 'dog', 'pear': 'bird'}]

Please see differing value(s)

If you wanted to ignore a key such as the ‘update_date’ you would simply set the ‘ignored_keys’ variable to that key or a list of keys:

Validate Response Contains Expected Response    ${json_actual_response}      ${json_expected_response}      ignored_keys=update_date
Validate Response Contains Expected Response    ${json_actual_response}      ${json_expected_response}      ignored_keys=${list_of_keys}

Getting Started

The Zoomba library is easily installed using the setup.py file in the home directory. Simply run the following command to install Zoomba and it’s dependencies:

pip install robotframework-zoomba

If you decide to pull the repo locally to make contributions or just want to play around with the code you can install Zoomba by running the following from the root directory:

pip install .

or if you intend to run unit tests:

pip install .[testing]

To access the keywords in the library simply add the following to your robot file settings (depending on what you need):

*** Settings ***
Library    Zoomba.APILibrary
Library    Zoomba.GUILibrary
Library    Zoomba.SOAPLibrary

Examples

Example tests can be found in the samples directory.

The test directory may also contain tests but be aware that these are used for testing releases and may not be as straight forward to use as the ones in the samples directory.

Contributing

To make contributions please refer to the CONTRIBUTING guidelines.

See the .githooks directory for scripts to help in development.

Support

General Robot Framework questions should be directed to the community forum.

For questions and issues specific to Zoomba please create an issue here on Github.