Example to execute RobotFramework test cases using maven plugin

I spent some time using maven plugin to run the RobotFramework tests. It is OK, run as expected.
But I feel it is a kind of restrictive.

Here I post my one maven pom.xml example.

For details, please check my github source code:
1. https://github.com/stevez/robotframework-maven-plugin-example
2. https://github.com/stevez/robotframework-java-keyword


pom.xml

Execute RobotFramework test cases using Gradle script

I did some research for RobotFramework using maven plugin. But I don't like it. it is too restrictive.Today I tried to implement a Gradle script, it is working, surprising easy.  Here is the code sample.

For details please refer my github repository.

build.gradle

RobotFramework tools installation guide

I used RobotFramework for more than half a year, I really love it.
Now I shared my installation guide.

Hope this will be helpful for any  Developers who are interested in RobotFramework, but don't have Python experiences.

Set up Robot framework Tool Chai

1. Install python
   download python 2.7.6
   https://www.python.org/downloads/

 add the python installation folder to the windows PATH environment variable, for example
   C:\dev_software\Python27;
 
2. Install pip
    http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing.html
   download get-pip.py via https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
   open a command window via "run as admin", type:
   python get-pip.py

   Add following into windows PATH environment variable:
   C:\dev_software\Python27\Scripts;

 
3. Install robot framework
   pip install robotframework
 
4. Install selenium2library
   pip install robotframework-selenium2library
 

5. Install RIDE

  install wxPython  wxPython 2.8.12.1
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxpython/files/wxPython/2.8.12.1/wxPython2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.12.1-py27.exe/download
             
  install through windows ride package win32 version
   https://code.google.com/p/robotframework-ride/downloads/detail?name=robotframework-ride-1.2.3.win32.exe
 
  Or install using pip
   pip install robotframework-ride
 
6. Install selenium webdriver client

   chrome driver: http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.10/chromedriver_win32.zip

   IE driver
    http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.42/IEDriverServer_Win32_2.42.0.zip
             
unzip them and copy the exe files in c:\webdriver directory
set them to windows path

    C:\dev_software\webdriver
             
               

7. Test
   run pip list, then you should see following:

decorator (3.4.0)
docutils (0.11)
pip (1.5.6)
robotframework (2.8.5)
robotframework-ride (1.3)
robotframework-selenium2library (1.5.0)
selenium (2.42.1)
setuptools (5.1)
 
- open dos command, type
  pybot

  then it will shows:
  [ ERROR ] Expected at least 1 argument, got 0.
  Try --help for usage information.


Documents:
- RobotFramework installation doc
  https://code.google.com/p/robotframework/wiki/Installation#Python_package_managers

- RobotFramework Selenium2Library installation guide
  https://github.com/rtomac/robotframework-selenium2library

- RIDE installation instructions:
  https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/wiki/Installation-Instructions

- selenium2library keywords doc
  http://rtomac.github.io/robotframework-selenium2library/doc/Selenium2Library.html