[TIP] [ANN] Robot Framework 2.5

Arve Knudsen arve.knudsen at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 14:37:40 PDT 2010


Before looking into this, how does Robot compare to Cucumber/RSpec (the two
other BDD frameworks I know of)?

Thanks,
Arve

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Pekka Klärck <peke at iki.fi> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Robot Framework [1] is a generic open source test automation framework
> for acceptance testing and acceptance test driven development (ATDD).
> It has an easy-to-use tabular syntax for creating test cases and its
> testing capabilities can be extended by test libraries implemented
> either with Python or Java. It utilizes the keyword-driven testing
> approach and supports also data-driven testing and behavior-driven
> development (BDD). For executable example test cases see the Quick
> Start Guide [2] and the SeleniumLibrary demo [3].
>
> Robot Framework 2.5 was released last Thursday. The biggest new
> features are continuing execution on failure, stopping execution
> gracefully, named arguments, and test templates to ease data-driven
> testing. The new features, fixed bugs, and backwards incompatible
> changes are listed in the release notes [4], and release packages are
> available on the download page [5].
>
> [1] http://robotframework.org
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/wiki/QuickStartGuide
> [3] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-seleniumlibrary/wiki/Demo
> [4] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/wiki/ReleaseNotes25
> [5] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/downloads/list
>
> Cheers,
>    .peke
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> Lead Developer of Robot Framework :: http://robotframework.org
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