New Lesson - Robot Framework

[saimkhan92]

@lara29 and I are planning to contribute a tutorial(primer) on the Robot Framework(wrt automated network verification). Please let us know if the tutorial outline seems appropriate.

@Mierdin @cloudtoad @jameskellynet

Robot Framework tutorial tentative outline

Chapter 1

• Introduction
• Installation
• Types of libraries/keywords
• Robot file format/syntax (introduction)
• Basic Example 1 (without vSRX interaction)

Chapter 2

• Project organization/directory structure
• Robot file format/syntax (continued)
• Basic example 2 (with vSRX interaction)

Chapter 3

• Tags/Setup/teardown
• Detailed example3 + Explanation (with vSRX interaction)

[Mierdin]

@saimkhan92 @lara29 This looks great. 👍 Chapter 2 and 3 are a little light on description but I think this is a good start and we can iterate on the pull request.

Have fun, and let us know if you need anything to keep moving.

[lara29]

Thanks @Mierdin
We'll add more sub-topics into chapter 2&3 once we have completed with the basic layout.

[saimkhan92]

Detailed Project Outline

Chapter 1

• Introduction
  • written in python
  • used for acceptance testing
  • keyword driven
• Types of keywords
  • built-in, standard libnrary, external libraries, private library
• Rules and Syntax
  • cell spacing, 4 tables
  • variable declaration(scalar, lists, dictionaries)
• Explain 4 tables
  • settings, variables, keywords, testcases
• Example1
  • basic syntax demo
  • import a simple private library
  • demo variables, settings, testcases (tables)
  • demo scalar variable
  • define multiple testcases in a testsuite
  • use built-in and library keywords
  • demo running a robot testsuite
  • demo a failure case

Chapter 2

• Topology information vSRX
  • hostname: "vsrx-robot"
  • model: "VSRX"
• Explain private library functions
• Example1
  • use keywords from junos private library
  • passing variables from the command line, parsing them inside the robot file
  • passing arguments for private functions/keywords

Chapter 3

• Demo user defined keywords
• Create a separate resource file and demonstrate importing it
• Project organization, directory structure best practices
  • data, libraries, resources, results, tests
• Example1
  • demo user defined keywords
  • demo FOR loop for parsing a returned dictionary
  • demo logging
• Example2
  • test setup/teardown
  • import resource file

[jameskellynet]

I can't wait to try this lesson and learn this stuff. Great stuff!

[lara29]

@Mierdin Can we pick the lesson number (like lesson-29) or will you assign it to us? Thanks!

[Mierdin]

Doesn't matter for now, pick one that's unique and we will make sure it's still unique before merge to master of this repo if applicable

[lara29]

Okay, we'll do that, thanks!

[lara29]

@Mierdin Can we add the package "robotframework" to the requirements.txt of utility Linux container(under /images/utility)? Or would you prefer we create a special linux container for this?

[Mierdin]

Utility container is fine.

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[lara29]

Thanks!

[lara29]

@Mierdin I do not have push permission for the linux utility container. Is it possible you could add the package "robotframework" to the requirements.txt, so that I can use it for testing. Thanks!

[Mierdin]

You don't need to push it, you can add it to requirements.txt in this PR.

[Mierdin]

Closed in #125