Robot Frameworkhttps://robotframework.org/ |
Cucumberhttps://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-ruby |
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| Programming language | Python | Ruby |
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Acceptance Testing
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Acceptance Testing
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| General info |
Robot is a Python framework used for acceptance/functional testing Robot is an automated test framework which has a simple plain text syntax and can be extended easily with Python or Java libraries. It can run on the .net-based IronPython and on Jython which is Java based. |
An automation tool for Behavior-Driven Development The specifications are written in plain texts, which allows them to be easily understandable for all stakeholders. Cucumber Framework also supports languages beyond Ruby e.g. Java, JavaScript and Scala. |
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xUnit
Set of frameworks originating from SUnit (Smalltalk's testing framework). They share similar structure and functionality. |
No
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Client-side
Allows testing code execution on the client, such as a web browser |
Yes Robot has a rich library and can also be easily integrated with Selenium for browser automation to test front-end components |
Yes You can test the front-end part like the GUI using cucumber and selenium, they integrate well to test your front-end. |
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Server-side
Allows testing the bahovior of a server-side code |
Yes Robot can be used for back-end tests as well |
Yes You can test back-end components such as APIs using rest & soap clients, and databases using whatever client libraries were provided by the libraries that existed in those stacks |
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Fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data (fixtures) that are test-local. This ensures specific environment for a single test |
There is no inbuilt way to work with fixtures in Robot however it can integrate with unittest and use fixtures that way |
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Group fixtures
Allows defining a fixed, specific states of data for a group of tests (group-fixtures). This ensures specific environment for a given group of tests. |
By integrating with unittest |
Yes Using the cucumber extension aruba you can create fixures in two steps: 1.Create a fixtures-directory; 2.Create fixture files in this directory |
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Generators
Supports data generators for tests. Data generators generate input data for test. The test is then run for each input data produced in this way. |
Yes Robot has a library called the Robot Framework Faker library. It contains 147 keywords used for generating random test data |
Yes You can group your fixtures inside your fixtures directories |
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Licence
Licence type governing the use and redistribution of the software |
Apache License 2.0
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MIT License
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Mocks
Mocks are objects that simulate the behavior of real objects. Using mocks allows testing some part of the code in isolation (with other parts mocked when needed) |
Yes Robot can access Python's mock library for mocking |
Yes By using all of RSpec’s supported mocking frameworks (RSpec, Mocha, RR, Flexmock) |
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Grouping
Allows organizing tests in groups |
Yes One can create a test suite with Robot |
Yes Cucumber allows the use of tag Cucumber feature files or individual tests to group tests. Then, you can pass a Cucumber tagged expression at test execution that specifies the tag (grouped) tests to run. https://www.toolsqa.com/cucumber/cucumber-tags/ |
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Other
Other useful information about the testing framework |
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