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Appendix C. Robot Framework
Appendix C. Robot Framework
In this appendix I will give a brief introduction to Robot Framework. Robot Framework comes with fantastic documentation. Check out the user guide1 if you seek more in-depth material. I especially found the documentation for the included libraries2 helpful while working with Robot.
1. http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/wiki/UserGuide
2. http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/wiki/TestLibraries
To get started with Robot you need Python. There is a Java implementation as well, which lets you write the glue code in native Java rather than Python. From the Python installation you can follow the installation instructions.3 They are straightforward. After the installation, you will have a pybot or jybot executable depending on your actual Python installation. If you use Python, you will have pybot; if you use the Java-based Jython, you will have jybot in your path. I will concentrate on pybot in the following. If you use Jython, please substitute calls to pybot with jybot respectively.