robotkernel 1.2.2

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

Robotkernel

Robot Framework IPython kernel for Jupyter Notebook and JupyterLab. Check a video to see it in action.

Requires Python 3.6 or later with setuptools 40.5.0 later and Robot Framework 3.1 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/robots-from-jupyter/robotkernel/master?urlpath=tree/example.ipynb

JupyterLab: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/robots-from-jupyter/robotkernel/master?urlpath=lab/tree/example.ipynb

Install Robotkernel

$ pip install robotkernel

For JupyterLab you should also install the companion syntax highlighting and Jupyter widgets support:

$ jupyter labextension install jupyterlab_robotmode
$ jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager

For some environments it might be required to run the following command to manually register robotkernel as Jupyter kernel:

$ python -m robotkernel.install

Install Robotkernel from Python 3 notebook

!pip install robotkernel

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 and Jupyter widgets support:

!jupyter labextension install jupyterlab_robotmode
!jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager

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

Robotkernel installs script named nbrobot, which the Robot Frameworks test runner robot with support for executing Jupyter notebooks created with Robotkernel:

$ nbrobot example.ipynb

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/robots-from-jupyter/robotkernel.git
$ cd robotkernel

Install the kernel into virtualenv in develop mode:

$ python setup.py develop

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/robots-from-jupyter/robotkernel/archive/master.tar.gz + "/shell.nix")' --run "jupyter notebook"

And for Jupyter Lab:

$ nix-shell -E 'import (fetchTarball https://github.com/robots-from-jupyter/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/robots-from-jupyter/robotkernel.git
$ cd robotkernel
$ nix-build setup.nix -A env  # to generate ./result/bin/python for IDE
$ nix-shell setup.nix -A develop

Changelog

1.2.2 (2020-01-05)

• Fix regression where wrong nbimporter was not automatically imported [datakurre]

1.2.1 (2019-12-30)

• Fix issue where data uri images were not displayed on notebook [datakurre]

• Fix issue where list type suite variables were not correctly restored [datakurre]

1.2 (2019-12-06)

• Add support for Robot Framework 3.2a1 [datakurre]

• Add support for displaying multiline text return values [datakurre]

• Add support for sticky JupyterLibrary webdriver connections [datakurre]

• Fix issue where updated global variables were overridden from saved variables from the previous execution [datakurre]

1.1.1 (2019-12-05)

• Fix issue where library autocompletion override settings keywords autocompletion [datakurre]

1.1.0 (2019-12-05)

• Add Library autocompletion after Library keyword within Settings [datakurre]

1.0.2 (2019-12-04)

• Fix issue where text strings feed to JSON displayed a warning [datakurre]

• Fix JupyterLab context help support to work when clicked in the middlle of a keyword [datakurre]

• Fix to close dangling Selenium connections [datakurre]

1.0.1 (2019-09-19)

• Fix issue where ${CURDIR} was broken on Windows, because it contained path without escaped path separators required by Robot Framework [datakurre]

• Fix issue where suite variable listener reported errors when running robot suites, because it tried to restore dictionary variables with empty value [datakurre]

1.0 (2019-09-12)

• Fix issue where log and report links did not open on JupyterLab 1.0 [datakurre]

1.0rc1 (2019-04-01)

• Move tutorials notebooks into notebooks folder [datakurre]

• Fix WhiteLibrary autocompletion to suggest selectors with :-separator instead of =-separator [datakurre]

0.12.2 (2019-03-30)

• Fix remaining where keeping state of suite level variables between cell executions since 0.12.0 caused regression by fixing the listener to ignore all known built-in variables [datakurre]

0.12.1 (2019-03-27)

• Fix issue where keeping state of suite level variables between cell executions resulted in errors caused by outdated output directory from the old variables [datakurre]

0.12.0 (2019-03-26)

New features:

• Add keyword execution widgets below executed keyword cells; Add to toggle widgets on consecutive executions without code changes [datakurre]

• Add listener to keep state of suite level variables between robot executions [datakurre]

• Add IPython display hooks [datakurre]

New features:

• Add updates to highlighting from ipythonrobotframework [datakurre]

0.11.0 (2019-01-29)

• Add WhiteLibrary state support and interactive element picker [datakurre]

• Add WhiteLibraryCompanion keyword library to interactively select elements and click elements with OpenCV templates [datakurre]

0.10.2 (2019-01-11)

• Fix syntax highlighting issue where only the first variable of many was highlighted [datakurre]

0.10.1 (2019-01-10)

• Update package trove classifiers [datakurre]

0.10.0 (2019-01-08)

Breaking:

• Setuptools 40.5.0 later and Robot Framework 3.1 or later. [datakurre]

new features:

• Add pregenerated kernel.json in data_files to auto-install robotkernel, but requiring [datakurre]

0.9.0 (2019-01-04)

New features:

• Rewrite status updater to the status of currently run test as trobber | test name | keyword name | robot.api.logger.console message [datakurre]

• Add embedded log and report to include Download-links at top right corner [datakurre]

• Add to display the results of the last executed keyword as the notebook result for the executed code cell [datakurre]

• Add syntax highlighting for variables and assignment operators [datakurre]

Bug fixes:

• Fix issue where setup.cfg contained OS specific path separators preventing build on Windows [datakurre]

• Fix issue where PNGs were interpreted as APNG on Windows preventing them from being rendered on Windows [datakurre]

• Update example notebook to use SeleniumLibrary and SeleniumScreenshots instead of SeleniumLibrary and Selenium2Screenshots [datakurre]

• Add to always reload libraries imported from other notebooks [datakurre]

0.8.0 (2018-12-14)

• Add to auto-import nbimporter when available to make it possible to import eg. keyword libraries from Python notebooks [datakurre]

• Fix issue where nbrobot did support %%python module magic [datakurre]

0.7.1 (2018-11-20)

• Add to require robotframework >= 3.1b1 in requires

0.7.0 (2018-10-31)

Breaking:

• Requires robotframework >= 3.1b1

Other:

• Add to create nbreader and nblibdoc cli to run robot with notebook reader support [datakurre]

• Add Selenium completions to sometimes include raw Simmer results with simplfied id completion results [datakurre]

• Add proof-of-concept selector completion for Appium and AutoIT libraries [datakurre]

• Fix screenshot processor to also discover images with absolute path or within the current working directory [datakurre]

0.6.3 (2018-10-19)

This is the last release compatible with robotframework < 3.1

• 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]