nrobo 2024.43.2

Powerful! Yet, Easy to USE! Automated Testing Framework

nRoBo (An Automated Testing Framework )

For Web Developers, QAs and Testers

Project Status

Active

Online Tutorials

VISIT and SUBSCRIBE to nRoBo YouTube Channel

Pre-requisites

Following pre-requisites needs to be installed in order to run *nRoBo* framework.

0. Install Python (3.11 or higher)

   • Check install guide for Python

   • Notes on Python Installation on Windows:

     • Go to “Control Panel > Add Or Remove Programs” and make sure that there are not multiple versions of Python are installed.

     • While installing Python, make sure following options to check as mentioned in the screenshots:

   

   python --version
   # or
   python --version

1. Install Java (11 or higher)

   • Check install guide for Java

   • Run the following command to check if java is installed

   java --version

2. Install allure command line tool.

   • Check Install guide

   • Run the following command to check if allure cli is installed

   allure --version

3. Install Target Browsers on testing systems

   • Chrome

   • Edge

   • IE

   • Safari

   • Firefox

Installation

On Windows machine, Run Command Prompt and/or Python IDE of your choice should be run in Administrator mode and execute the following commands. (To run in administrator mode, Right click on the tool and select ‘Run As Administrator’ option)

0. Make a directory for automation project

mkdir <project-name>

• Example:

  If you want to develop autotests for the project, Dream. You can create directory and change directory to dream as following:

mkdir dream
cd dream

1. Install virtualenv package

pip install virtualenv

2. Create virtual environment - .venv

virtualenv .venv

3. Activate virtual environment

   • Unix/Mac/Linux

   source .venv/bin/activate

   • Windows

   .\\.venv\\Scripts\\activate

4. Install nrobo

pip install nrobo --require-virtualenv

5. Install & run framework in single command

nrobo --instances 10

Note

If there are any errors, run the upgrade command, pip install –upgrade nrobo

6. Run tests

   1. Minimal switches

   nrobo --browser chrome_headless --report allure

   2. Typical usage

   nrobo --app <app-name> --url <test-url> --username <username> --password <password> --instances <number-of-parallel-tests> --reruns <number-of-retries-to-rerun-failed-tests> --browser chrome_headless --report allure

   • Example:

   nrobo --app Lotus --url https://www.google.com --username shiv --password tandav --instances 10 --reruns 2 --browser chrome_headless --report allure

   Above command instructs nrobo to do the following actions:

   • Launch the tests of Lotus application from the default test directory, <project-root-dir>, and its subdirectories and generate both, html (plain) and allure (rich) reports for displaying test results with following additional test parameters:

     1. Test url (–url switch)

     2. Credential: (username, password)=(shiv, tandav)

     3. Run bunch of 10 tests at once (–instances switch)

     4. Rerun addition 2 times the tests which got failed (–reruns switch)

     5. Target browser = Headless Chrome (–browser switch)

Notes for running -b=anti_bot_chrome:

• When running from a datacenter (even smaller ones), chances are large you will not pass! Also, if your ip reputation at home is low, you won’t pass!

• anti_bot_chrome will not work with –grid switch!

Command Line Switches

This section enlists list of nRoBo-command-line-switches (nCLI) that it supports. nCLI shadows every PyTest-command-line-switches (PyTestCLI) for backward compatibility with pytest.

Thus, nCLI switches are being categorized into three types:

1. Pure-nCLI-switches

   • Only nCLI specific switches. Non-PyTest CLI switches.

2. nCLI shadowing switches

   • These are PyTest switches overriden by nCLI with a new long or short name. These are at core, pure PyTest switches.

3. Pure-PyTest-CLI-switches

   • As the name suggests, it is self explanatory that these switches are pure PyTest switches and maintained by them.

Below is a list of switches including all the three types categorically.

1. Pure nCLI Switches

   -i, --install

   Install nRoBo requirements and framework on host system

   --app

   Name of application under test. Name should not include special chars and it should only having alphanumeric values.

   --url

   Application url under test.

   --username

   Username for login.

   --password

   Password for login.

   -n, --instances

   Number of parallel tests to reduce test-run-time. Default value is 1. Meaning single test at a time in sequence.

   --report

   Defines type of test report. Two types are supported, Simple HTML or Rich Allure report. Options are <html> or <allure>. Default is <html>

   -b, --browser

   Target browser. Default is chrome. Following is a list of browser options support in nRoBo. chrome, chrome_headless, anti_bot_chrome, edge, edge_headless, safari, firefox, firefox_headless, ie

   --browser-config

   Path of browser-config-file containing additional options that is/are needed to be applied before browser instantiation. Each line in file should contain one option only.

   For example: You want to apply, –start-maximized, chrome switch for chrome browser. and if the browser-config-file is names as ‘chrome_config.txt’, then the content of file would be as following:

   –start-maximized

   There will be no conversion taking place by nRoBo! The browser switches will be applied to the browser instance.

   --grid

   Remote Grid server url. Tests will be running on the machine when Grid server is running pointed by Grid url.

2. nCLI Shadowing Switches

   -k, --key

   Only run tests that match the given substring expression. An expression is a python resolvable expression where all names are substring-matched against test names and their parent classes.

   Example:

   -k ‘test_method or test_other’ matches all test.yaml functions and classes whose name contains ‘test_method’ or ‘test_other’, while -k ‘not test_method’ matches those that don’t contain ‘test_method’ in their names. -k ‘not test_method and not test_other’ will eliminate the matches. Additionally keywords are matched to classes and functions containing extra names in their ‘extra_keyword_matches’ set, as well as functions which have names assigned directly to them. The matching is case-insensitive.

   Note: –key switch is shadowing -k switch of PyTest for the sake of readability.

   -m, --marker

   Only run tests matching given mark expression. For example: -m ‘mark1 and not mark2’

3. Pure PyTest CLI Switches

   --reruns

   Retries to rerun the failed tests n times specified by –reruns switch.

   --reruns-delay

   Delay time in second(s) before a rerun for a failed test. Default is 1 second.

   --markers

   Show markers (builtin, plugin and per-project ones).

   --junit-xml

   –junit-xml=path. create junit-xml style report file at given path.

   --rootdir

   –rootdir=ROOTDIR. Define root directory for tests. Can be relative path: ‘root_dir’, ‘./root_dir’,’root_dir/another_dir/’; absolute path:’/home/user/root_dir’; path with variables: ‘$HOME/root_dir’.

   --co, --collect-only

   only collect tests, don’t execute them.

   Note:

   • Full list of PyTest switches are enlisted and explained at the following web address: Pure PyTest CLI Switches

   • Full list of all switches can be seen by running the following nrobo cli:

     nrobo -h
     #or
     nrobo --help

   • nRoBo shadows all the PyTest switches, so no need to worry about. We can use each of them within the nRoBo framework. Isn’t it great!

Personalization

Note

This section will be updated soon!

Reports

Support for two kinds of test reports:

1. Lightweight HTML Report (Best for sharing test results)

   • Go to <results> dir and Double click on <report.html> file to view the simple html report.

2. Rich Allure Pytest Report (Best for visualization)

   • Make sure *allure-pytest command line tool is installed!*

     • To check, run the command:

     allure --version

     • If not installed, please go through Pre-requisites section above.

   • Run the following command:

   allure serve results/allure

Videos

Note

This section will be updated soon!

Features

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• Easy and standard install - By nRoBo

• Easy to learn and use - By nRoBo

• Simple and Well Defined Automation Directory Structure - By nRoBo

• Report Customization - By nRoBo

• Rich Command Line Support that helps integration with CI/CD pipeline or any DevOps tech. - By nRoBo

• Shipped with rich set of examples along with install. Thus, speedup learning. - By nRoBo

• VISIT and SUBSCRIBE to Dedicated nRoBo YouTube channel with a collection of video tutorials. Thus, speedup learning. - By nRoBo

• Ready to use framework loaded with power of PyTest, Selenium Webdriver 4, HTML Report, Rich Allure Report and other tools. By nRoBo

• Ability to organize tests in Groups. Inbuilt groups are sanity, ui, regression, nogui, api at present. - By PyTest and nRoBo

• Rich Browser Support (Chrome, Headless Chrome, Anti Bot Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, FireFox Headless, IE) - By SeleniumWebdriver

• Rich Platform Support (Unix, Linux, Mac, Windows) - By PyTest, SeleniumWebdriver and nRoBo

• nRoBo selenium wrapper classes and methods that saves lot of key presses. Thus, leveraging benefits of compact, readable and manageable of code. - By nRoBo

• Well-structured thread-safe inbuilt setup and tear down processes. Thus, You can keep focus on testing! Not on maintaining framework. - By nRoBo

• Test Parallelization - Inherited from PyTest

• Distributed testing over Grid infrastructure - Inherited from SeleniumWebdriver

• Test parameterization - Inherited from PyTest

• Screenshot-capture at the end of each test - Inherited from SeleniumWebdriver

• Capture webdriver logs, console logs and screenshots in reports - Inherited from PyTest

• Inbuilt integration with NxGen Rich Allure Report (Backed by Allure Reports and pytest-html-reports)

Download Statistics

Country	Percent	Download Count
US	41.14%	34,222
CN	11.42%	9,503
DE	7.64%	6,356
HK	5.62%	4,673
SG	4.39%	3,648
RU	4.18%	3,478
JP	3.30%	2,745
KR	3.21%	2,668
FR	2.86%	2,379
CA	1.98%	1,645
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NO	1.77%	1,473
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FI	0.66%	549
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IE	0.58%	485
TH	0.58%	484
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CH	0.32%	269
ZA	0.31%	255
CZ	0.17%	144
BR	0.09%	78
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TR	0.06%	46
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IS	0.05%	42
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RO	0.03%	24
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GF	0.02%	16
BE	0.02%	14
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AT	0.01%	9
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