robotkernel 0.6.3

A Jupyter kernel for interactive acceptance-test-driven development with the Robot Framework

Robotkernel

Robot Framework IPython kernel for Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab.

Requires Python 3.6 or later.

Log | Report -links on existing notebooks are only active on trusted notebooks.

Try Robotkernel at Binder

Jupyter Notebook: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/datakurre/robotkernel/master?urlpath=tree/example.ipynb

JupyterLab: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/datakurre/robotkernel/master?urlpath=lab/tree/example.ipynb

Install Robotkernel

$ pip install robotkernel
$ python -m robotkernel.install

For JupyterLab you should also install the companion syntax highlighting:

$ jupyter labextension install jupyterlab_robotmode

Install Robotkernel from Python 3 notebook

!pip install robotkernel
!python -m robotkernel.install

After refreshing the notebook, it is possible change the kernel to Robot Framework kernel or create a new notebook with Robot Framework kernel.

For JupyterLab you should also install the companion syntax highlighting:

!jupyter labextension install jupyterlab_robotmode

Export robot files

It is possible to export test suites direclty from Jupyter Notebook or JupyterLab user interface (into traditional .robot files), but also from command line:

$ jupyter nbconvert --to script example.ipynb

Execute notebooks

In addition, it is also possible to execute notebooks as such, resulting into a new notebook with embedded execution logs and reports:

$ jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute example.ipynb

This will stop the execution at first failing test case.

When execution with errors, to also get a result notebook with execution logs saved, an extra flag --ExecutePreprocessor.allow_errors=True must be set:

$ jupyter nbconvert --ExecutePreprocessor.allow_errors=True --to notebook --execute example.ipynb

This may change in future versions of nbconvert.

Note that when executing a notebook, each cell with tests cases or tasks will be executed as its own suite. It might be more efficient to export notebook into a robot script and execute that with the traditional robot runner.

Local installation and development

See also: http://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

Create and activate clean Python virtual environment:

$ venv myenv
$ source myenv/bin/activate

Install Jupyter:

$ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
$ pip install jupyter

Clone this kernel:

$ git clone https://github.com/datakurre/robotkernel.git
$ cd robotkernel

Install the kernel into virtualenv in develop mode:

$ python setup.py develop

Install the kernel into jupyter:

$ python -m robotkernel.install

Launch the jupyter:

$ jupyter notebook

Reloading the kernel reloads the code.

Nix-shell (https://nixos.org/nix/)

This repository includes opinionated instructions for running and developing Robotkernel with Nix for Jupyter Notebook:

$ nix-shell -E 'import (fetchTarball https://github.com/datakurre/robotkernel/archive/master.tar.gz + "/shell.nix")' --run "jupyter notebook"

And for Jupyter Lab:

$ nix-shell -E 'import (fetchTarball https://github.com/datakurre/robotkernel/archive/master.tar.gz + "/shell.nix")'
$ jupyter labextension install jupyterlab_robotmode --app-dir=.jupyterlab
$ jupyter lab --app-dir=.jupyterlab
$ exit

Add --arg sikuli true to include SikuliLibrary.

Add --arg vim true to enable vim bindings.

Development environment with Nix:

$ git clone https://github.com/datakurre/robotkernel.git
$ cd robotkernel
$ nix-build setup.nix -A env  # to generate ./result/bin/python for IDE
$ nix-shell setup.nix -A develop

Changelog

0.6.3 (2018-10-19)

• Remove deprecated replace-flag from kernel installer [datakurre]

0.6.2 (2018-10-19)

• Fix compatibility issue with robotframework < 3.1 [datakurre]

0.6.1 (2018-10-19)

• Fix issue where kernel installation produced broken kernel.json on Windows [datakurre]

0.6.0 (2018-10-18)

• Revert data source path from temporary directory into current working directory to allow local libraries and resources work in the usual use cases [datakurre]

• Add experimental Simmerjs based CSS-selector builder and element picker with when auto-completion is called with empty “css:”-selector [datakurre]

• Add experimental Selenium selector auto-completion [datakurre]

• Add dummy variable completion with only variables from current suite without context knowledge [datakurre]

• Add inline documentation links to Robot Framework User Guide for structural keywords [datakurre]

0.5.4 (2018-10-09)

• Fix issue where single term keywords got no completions [datakurre]

0.5.3 (2018-10-09)

• Update README [datakurre]

0.5.1 (2018-10-08)

• Auto completion and keyword doc inspection enhancements [datakurre]

0.5.0 (2018-10-08)

• Add auto-completion, keyword doc inspection and support for replacing and deleting cell history on Jupyter lab [datakurre]

0.4.0 (2018-09-26)

• Add support for robotframework 3.1a2 [datakurre]

• Add support for reporting RPA suites with “Tasks” instead of “Tests” [datakurre]

0.3.5 (2018-09-25)

• Update README with notebook execution instructions [datakurre]

0.3.4 (2018-09-25)

• Update README [datakurre]

0.3.3 (2018-09-25)

• Note on README that Log | Report -links require trusting the notebook [datakurre]

• Fix to wrap test execution updates with ‘<pre>’ for better readability [datakurre]

0.3.2 (2018-09-25)

• Change to always send display data updates in text/html to workaround a bug that caused ‘undefined’ to be rendered in JupyterLab [datakurre]

0.3.1 (2018-09-24)

• Update README [datakurre]

0.3.0 (2018-09-23)

• First release. [datakurre]