playwright-demo

Simple robotframework tests for demoing the use of Playwright traces with Browserlib

Dependencies

• Python 3.7.5 or newer
• robotframework 4.1.3 (requirements.txt)
• robotframework-browser 11.4.0 (requirements.txt)
• rpaframework 13.0.0 (requirements.txt)
• tested to work with node.js v16.14.0 & pip ver. 20.0.2 & chromium-browser ver. 1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 (ubuntu20 specific)

Setting up robot-fw, Browserlib and Playwright

• Create and activate new python virtualenv

• Install node.js (for Ubuntu e.g. these instructions https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-node-js-on-ubuntu-debian/)

• pip3 install -r conf/requirements.txt (in linux)

• rfbrowser init

• Check that you have at least one of these installed: Chromium, Firefox, WebKit

  chromium can be installed in Ubuntu e.g. with sudo apt install --assume-yes chromium-browser

Viewing traces with Trace viewer

• After demo_page.robot suite has been run, you can view the trace of each robot test with

rfbrowser show-trace -F <output_path>/Demo_Page_<test>_robot_trace