ATDD using Robot Framework and TDD with Python

Install Python 3.4

https://www.python.org/downloads/

Note:

• For Windows, you have to remember Python installation path to use in the next step

Setup PATH environment variable for Windows

1. Press "Windows + Pause"
2. Click "Advance System Settings"
3. Click "Environment Variables"
4. Edit value of Path variable, append Python installation path at the end

Verify Installed Python

1. Open terminal
2. Run python --version

python --version
Python 3.5.1

You should see the version of installed Python on your machine

Install PIP

Mac OS/Linux

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && sudo python get-pip.py

Windows

1. Goto "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py"

2. Save this as "get-pip.py" at "c:"

3. Open terminal and run

python get-pip.py

Verify installed PIP

1. Open terminal
2. Run pip --version

pip --version
pip 8.1.2 from /env/lib/python3.5/site-packages (python 3.5)

You should see the version of installed PIP on your machine

Install Virtualenv

pip install virtualenv

Create Project and setup environment

1. Create directoty at "/home/my-robot" or "c:\my-robot" for Windows

2. Goto project directory and init Git repository

3. Create our development environment

virtualenv env

Activate env (Mac/Linux)

. env/bin/activate

Activate env (Windows)

env\scripts\activate

Install dependencies

Create "requirements.txt" and add the following lines

robotframework
robotframework-selenium2library

Run pip install -r requirements.txt

Alternate installation steps

1. Run pip install robotframework
2. Run pip install robotframework-selenium2library

Robot Framework verification

Run robot --version

robot --version
Robot Framework 3.0 (Python 3.5.1 on darwin)

You should see the version of installed Robot Framework on your machine