Germanium Robot Bindings

Germanium Robot Bindings

Germanium has now Robot bindings. That means you can spin it up in your robot test-cases with zero effort. As a bonus, it can also work with your existing Selenium test cases. Let’s see how this works:

First, we need to install it:

pip install robotframework-germaniumlibrary

Then, in our test-case, instantiate the browser, and start testing away:

*** Settings ***
Library  GermaniumLibrary

*** Test Cases ***
This is a simple test case
    Open Browser  chrome
    Maximize Window
    Go To  https://germaniumhq.com
    Click  Link("Log In")
    Assert Exists  Input().right_of(Text("Email"))
    Type Keys In  Input().right_of(Text("Email"))  someuser
    Close Browser

The full list of keywords is this one:

• use selenium browser

• open browser [name]

• close browser

• maximize window

• click [selector]

• double click [selector]

• hover [selector]

• right click [selector]

• go to [url]

• type keys [keys]

• type keys in [selector] [keys]

• drag and drop [from_selector] [to_selector]

• select by index [selector] [index]

• select by text [selector] [text]

• select by value [selector] [value]

• deselect by index [selector] [index]

• deselect by text [selector] [text]

• deselect by value [selector] [value]

• select file [selector] [path]

• assert exists [selector]

• assert missing [selector]

If you already have some existing Selenium test cases, and you want to try out Germanium, you can reuse the browser opened by Selenium:

*** Settings ***
Library  SeleniumLibrary
Library  GermaniumLibrary

*** Test Cases ***
This is a test case to show usage with the SeleniumLibrary
    SeleniumLibrary.Open Browser  https://germaniumhq.com  chrome
    GermaniumLibrary.Use Selenium Browser
    GermaniumLibrary.Maximize Window
    GermaniumLibrary.Click  Link("Log In")
    GermaniumLibrary.Type Keys In  Input().right_of(Text("Email"))  someuser
    GermaniumLibrary.Assert Exists  Input()
    GermaniumLibrary.Assert Missing  Text("eeee")
    SeleniumLibrary.Close Browser

That’s it! Enjoy your testing :D

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