Greg Meece GLMeece

Windows Users

Windows Bit-version Assumption

Execution is on a 64-bit version of Windows. To maintain continuity, we will be keeping almost everything "bit-aligned" so that executables and libraries will all be 64-bit.
The one possible exception to this is for Internet Explorer's Selenium Driver. See why that is below.

Configure Environment

Download the appropriate browser drivers:

Latency Comparison Numbers

Note: "Forked" from Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

Event	Nanoseconds	Microseconds	Milliseconds	Comparison
L1 cache reference	0.5	-	-	-
Branch mispredict	5.0	-	-	-
L2 cache reference	7.0	-	-	14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock	25.0	-	-	-

CSS Tweak

If you wish to tweak the CSS in the reports, you'll probably want to modify the Python Lib directory's robot/htmldata/rebot/common.css file (for Linux, this is usually located in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages; in Windows it's usually C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages). I prefer the Open Sans font, so I add the following at the top of this file:

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,400italic,700,700italic);

Then, I replace 'Helvetica' with 'Open Sans' in the body's font-family declaration.

About

This is a quick "how to run" if you already have everything Robot Framework-related installed. This Gist might be especially handy for those you either just starting out, or if you've inherited a code-base from someone else.

The following assumes you have a terminal (CMD or PowerShell on Windows, Terminal on Mac or Linux) and aren't afraid to use it.

Testing ALL THE THINGS

cd into the root directory of the Robot Framework files and test cases; we'll assume all test cases are somewhere within a directory named test_cases.

Copied from http://code.lancepollard.com/complete-list-of-html-meta-tags/

Basic HTML Meta Tags

<meta charset='UTF-8'>
<meta name='keywords' content='your, tags'>
<meta name='description' content='150 words'>
<meta name='subject' content='your website's subject'>
<meta name='copyright' content='company name'>

Testing reST Code Blocks

Code Block (Python):

jnk_instance = "http://jenkins.jarvis.cylancecorp.com:8080/"
jnk_user = 'myusername'
jnk_pass = 'mypassword'
my_test_run = JenkinsJobTestRunRetrieval(jnk_instance, jnk_user, jnk_pass)

	javascript:(function () {
	var ids = {};
	var found = false;
	$('[id]').each(function() {
	if (this.id && ids[this.id]) {
	found = true;
	console.warn('Duplicate ID #'+this.id);
	}
	ids[this.id] = 1;
	});

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import os
	import platform

	"""
	Utility functions for determining Operating System info at runtime.

	- Module: runtime_os_info
	- Platform: Unix, Mac, Windows

	# Starting with a generic "Open Browser to Page" keyword, following that are examples for:
	# Google Chrome
	# PhantomJS
	#
	# Assumed global or suite variables:
	# ${browser} - the browser you want to use in testing
	# ${delay} - the "speed" that Selenium verbs execute at
	# ${user_agent} - User Agent string like: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36
	#
	# Note: The documentation is written with the libdoc utility in mind. See:

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	"""
	Determine whether integer is a prime or not.

	- Module: is_prime
	- Platform: Unix, Windows
	- Author: [mailto:[email protected]?subject=About is_prime.py\|Greg Meece]
	"""