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Robot Framework is a keyword-driven test automation framework, written in Python. Features include: high-level architecture, simple tabular syntax, data-driven test cases, separate test data editor, clear reports. It's functionality can be extended through self-developed and Remote libraries.

Présentation de Robotframework pour l'écriture de tests

You can find below all the steps needed to develop and execute a Robot Framework test case using both Sikuli and Selenium at the same time. Note that Selenium library runs on Python (does not support Jython) however Sikuli needs Jython so using one Python interpreter is not going to work for both at the same time. The trick is to use Python (works fine with Selenium library) and run Jython on a remote machine (localhost simulating remote machine). This way we execute Selenium keywords using Python on the local machine and call Sikuli keywords on the remote machine using RPC-xml sever.

Sikuli and Robot Framework are both freely available open source tools that provide interesting possibilities for automation testers, QA and other IT people.

Sikuli introduces new way of automated testing - test using screenshots and images, without using any internal API of objects under test. This approach (using purely images/screenshots and generating mouse and keyboard events) is more similar to manual testing activities performed by real people which have just monitor, mouse and keyboard.

Robot Framework is an excellent implementation of keyword- and data-driven approaches to test automation and besides it includes a lot of interesting features and tools, such as:

• RIDE (Robot Integrated Development Environment)
  easy-to-use editor for creating and maintaining test data.
• Provides easy-to-read reports and logs in HTML format.
• Provides a simple library API for creating customized test libraries.

and much more...