Robot Framework Mobile Automation

This project serves as a boilerplate for automating both Android and iOS mobile applications using a single codebase with Robot Framework and the Appium library.

Installation

1. Download and Install Android Studio

2. Download and Install Python

3. Check Python installation

   python3 -V

4. Install pip

   pip3 -V

5. Install Appium 2.0 npm i -g appium@next

6. Install Robot Framework

   pip3 install robotframework

7. Install Appium Library

   pip3 install robotframework-appiumlibrary

8. Download and install VSCode VSCode

9. Install Robot Code extension from VSCode's Marketplace

10. Install Appium Drivers

    appium driver install uiautomator2

    appium driver install xcuitest

Usage

The basic usage is giving a path to a test (or task) file or directory as an argument with possible command line options before the path

robot -v PLATFORM_NAME:android -i Smoke -d results tests/*.robot

"-v" refers to the variables. To replace a declared value within the code, you can specify a variable name and value.

"-i" refers to the tags. To run only a selected group of tests, you may specify a tag name.

"-d" refers to the test results. The location to save the test results can be specified here.

License

MIT License