Awesome Robot Framework

A curated list of awesome Robot Framework resources and libraries

Awesome Robot Framework

Robot Framework

Official Website The official Robot Framework Website
Guides The Robot Framework guides, with examples and explanations on how to use Robot Framework
RFCP The syllabus for the Robot Framework Certified Professional Exam
Robocon The Premier Robot Framework conference, generally held in February
Standard Libraries The standard set of Robot Framework Libraries, included with Robot Framework. Also known as “Core Libraries”
Style Guide A community driven set of sensible rules to write your Robot Framework code.
User Guide Reference manual explaining all Robot Framework features in detail

Robot Framework Foundation

The Robot Framework Foundation is a non-profit organization that supports the development and maintenance of the Robot Framework, an open-source automation tool used for acceptance testing and robotic process automation. The foundation sponsors bug fixes, ecosystem projects, reviews community contributions, and manages the framework’s infrastructure, encouraging users to contribute to its ongoing development.

Robot Framework Foundation Join the Robot Framework Foundation

Community

MarketSquare A community run collection of repositories for Robot Framework.
Slack Official Robot Framework Slack Channel.
Forum Official Robot Framework forum.
LinkedIn The Robot Framework Linkedin Group

Libraries

Core

BuiltIn Contains generic often needed keywords. Imported automatically and thus always available.
Collections Contains keywords for handling lists and dictionaries.
DateTime Supports creating and verifying date and time values as well as calculations between them.
Dialogs Supports pausing the test execution and getting input from users.
OperatingSystem Enables performing various operating system related tasks.
Process Supports executing processes in the system.
Screenshot Provides keywords to capture and store screenshots of the desktop.
String Library for manipulating strings and verifying their contents.
Telnet Supports connecting to Telnet servers and executing commands on the opened connections.
XML Library for verifying and modifying XML documents.

App/Mobile

Android Library (Keywords) Library for all your Android automation needs. It uses Calabash Android internally.
Appium Library Library for Android- and iOS-testing. It uses Appium internally.
iOS Library Library for all your iOS automation needs. It uses Calabash iOS Server internally.

Cloud and Devops

AWS - Keywords for interacting with AWS services in your test suites.
Jenkins Jenkins interaction.
Webpack Control Webpack dev servers.
Kubernetes - Keywords for interacting with the Kubernetes API.
Terraform - Infrastructure as Code via Terraform and OpenTofu.

Data

Datetime-TZ Date/time with locales and time zones.
Excel Library Library which provides keywords to allow opening, reading, writing and saving Excel files.
Excel10library Basic control over Excel10 (xlsx) files.
Excel Lib Work with Excel documents.
JSON Schema Library JSON Schema validation library for Robot Framework.
JSON Validator JSON validation based on JSONSchema, JSONPath, JSONSelect.
String Format String formatting.

Database

Cassandracql Library Execute CQL statements in Cassandra Database.
Couchbase Library Work with Couchbase.
Couchbase Manager Manage Couchbase server.
Database Library Python based library for database testing. Works with any Python interpreter, including Jython.
Database Library (SQLAlchemy) Database lib based on SQLAlchemy.
Keepass Library Work with KeePass databases.
MongoDB Library Library for interacting with MongoDB using pymongo.
Oracledb Library Work with Oracle Databases.
Postgresqldb Library Work with PostgresSQL databases.
Tarantool Library Work with Tarantool DB.

Embedded

Construct Build and parse binary data.

File Handling

Archive Library Library for handling zip- and tar-archives.
OpenAFS Library Test library for the OpenAFS distributed filesystem.
UNIX Filesystem Library Unix filesystem testing for Robot Framework.

Frameworks

AngularJS Library An AngularJS extention library to Robotframework’s Selenium2Library.
DjangoLibrary Library for Django, a Python web framework.
Drupal Library Library targeting Drupal sites, built on top of Selenium2Library.
React Library Work with React.js based web applications.

GUI And Applications

AutoIt Library Windows GUI testing library that uses AutoIt freeware tool as a driver.
Eclipse Library Library for testing Eclipse RCP applications using SWT widgets.
Remote Swing Library Robot Framework library for testing and connecting to a java process and using SwingLibrary.
RoboSAPiens SAP GUI Automation for Humans
SapGui Library Automate the SAP GUI Desktop client
Swing Library (Keywords) Library for testing Java applications with Swing GUI.
Zoomba Collection of testing libraries spanning GUI, REST/SOAP API, and Windows Desktop automation.

Messaging/Communication

Confluent Kafka Library Wrapper for the confluent-kafka-python.
FTP Library Library which makes it possible to test or use FTP server using Robot Framework keywords.
HTTP Ctrl HTTP/HTTPS client and HTTP server services to make REST API testing easy.
HTTP Request (Java) Library for HTTP level testing using Apache HTTP client.
HTTP Request (livetest) Library for HTTP level testing using livetest tool internally.
HTTP Request (Requests) Library for HTTP level testing using Request internally.
IMAP Library Library to test IMAP email validation tasks.
MQTT Library Library that provides keywords for testing on MQTT brokers.
RabbitMQ Work with RabbitMQ.
Requests Checker Check HTTP Response Status Codes.
Requests Logging Log HTTP requests and responses.
RESTinstance Library Robot Framework test library for (RESTful) JSON APIs.
SSH Library Test library for SSH and SFTP.
SNMP Library Work with SNMP.
SSHTunnel Library Connect to remote host using SSH Local Forwarding.
Stub Library For all your HTTP needs.
Suds Library (Keywords) Library for functional testing of SOAP-based web services with Suds, a dynamic SOAP 1.1 client.
Websocket Client Wrapper for the websocket-client module.

Screenshots

Remotetransfer Transfer screenshots from remoteserver to local machine.
Screencap Library Take screenshots and videos.

System and Network Management

Docker Work with Docker and Docker Compose.
IPMI Test IPMI devices.
Ncclient (Keywords) Robotframework NETCONF wrapper library of ncclient.
Apache Tomcat - Manage Apache Tomcat server.
Zookeeper Manager Manage Apache Zookeeper.
Xvfb Interact with Xvfb.
WinRegistry Work with Windows Registry.
PerfmonLibrary Read Windows Performance Monitor Counters.

Testing And Debugging

Advanced Logging Create additional logs.
Debug Library Debug Library for Robot Framework
Dependency Library Declare dependencies between Robot Framework tests.
Dependency Solver A Robot Framework prerunmodifier for interdependent test cases execution.
Testrail Listener and pre-run modifier for working with TestRail.

Visual Testing

Applitools Robot Framework Visual Verification Test Library using Applitools Eyes (Utilizes AppiumLibrary or\and SeleniumLibrary).
DocTestLibrary Simple Automated Visual Document Testing.
Eyes To automate visual software testing.
ImageHorizonLibrary (Keywords) Cross-platform, pure Python library for GUI automation based on image recognition.
WatchUI Custom library for works with image, pdf and tesseract with RF.

Web Testing

AnywhereLibrary Library for testing Single-Page Apps (SPA). Uses Selenium Webdriver and Appium internally.
Browser - Automate the browser using Playwright.
Page Object Library Library that makes it possible to use the page object pattern when testing web pages.
QWeb - Keyword based test automation for the web. (Keywords)
Selenium Library Web testing based on Selenium.
Selenium Screenshots Capture annotated screenshots with SeleniumLibrary.
Selenium Testability Provides either manual or automatic waiting asyncronous events within SUT.
Integrations
- Renode Simulation in the loop testing for complex embedded systems based on Robot Framework.
Network testing
- pyats.robot - Sub-component of Cisco pyATS library for enabling network testing using RobotFramework.
Remote Library Examples
- robotframework-scala-remote-library An example of a Remote Server Keywords library implementation in Scala and based on a blog post written by Thomas Jaspers.

Tools

Built-in tools
- DbBot DbBot is a tool to serialize Robot Framework test run results into a SQLite database.
- Rebot Tool for generating logs and reports based on XML outputs and for combining multiple outputs together.
- RoboMachine Model-based testing with Robot Framework.
- Libdoc Tool for generating Keywords for test libraries and resource files.
- Pabot Parallel executor for Robot Framework test cases.
- Testdoc Generates high level HTML documentation based on Robot Framework test cases.
- Tidy Tool for cleaning up and changing format of Robot Framework test data files.
- Remote Interface Introduction to the remote interface with a list of available remote servers.
- rfhub2 Tool for collecting, browsing and sharing documentation of existing keywords written in RobotFramework and python.
Build
- Jenkins plugin Plugin to collect and publish Robot Framework test results in Jenkins.
- Robotcorder Chrome plugin to record session for Robot Framework.
- Maven plugin Maven plugin for using Robot Framework.
- Ant task Ant task for running Robot Framework tests.
Cryptocurrency or Blockchain tools
- Robot Framework Solidity Testing Toolkit Robot Framework tools that integrate with various Web3 blockchain technologies for testing and deploying smart contracts written in Solidity. It also provides an example (using a forked Fantom mainnet) for starting your own blockchain monitoring process.
Docker
- docker-robot-framework Robot Framework (with Firefox and Chrome) in Docker.
- robotframework-distbot Distribute tests into multiple machines/docker containers.
Editors
- Jupyter
  - robotkernel RobotFramework kernel for Jupyter notebooks.
  - xeus-robot Jupyter kernel for Robot Framework based on the native implementation of the Jupyter protocol xeus.
- RobotCode RobotCode Is a set of tools and extensions and plugins for working with Robot Framework in different IDEs, editors and on the command line.
  - VSCode Extensions
    - RobotCode for VSCode
  - Pycharm/Intellij
    - Robotcode for Jetbrains
IDEs
- RIDE (Robot Framework IDE) - RIDE is a lightweight and intuitive editor for Robot Framework test data.
- robotframework-workbench Collection of tools for working with robotframework test suite and resource files.
Integrations
- allure-robotframework - Robot Framework integration for Allure.
- robotframework-rp-tools - Listener and visitor modules for integration with ReportPortal.
- RobotMK Robot Framework integration for the Open Source monitoring solution Checkmk.
- molecule-robotframework - Ansible Molecule plugin for running molecule tests with Robot Framework.
- pytest-robotframework - Pytest plugin that creates robotframework reports for tests written in python and allows you to run robotframework tests with Pytest.
Verification
- Robot Framework Lint Linter for robot framework plain text files.
- Robocop Static code analysis tool for Robot Framework with use of latest robot API and many built-in rules that can be easily configured or switched off.
Dashboard
- robotframework-metrics Dashboard view of execution results
- robotframework-dashboard Dashboard view that provides insight of your test results across multiple runs.
Personal Assistants
- robotframework-test-assistant Use a conversational AI test assistant to control Robot Framework test suites and RPA tasks with your voice or with text commands.
Performance
- rfswarm Performance testing in robotframework
Historic
- robotframework-historic Library to capture and generate historical reports
Robot Framework Executor
- robotframework-executor Gui Application to Run the Robot Framework Test. With features like parellel execution, Batch monitor, Execution Monitor, Historical Stats, Downloads Batch/execution/historical data to csv, Bookmark test cases etc.
Online Playground
- Released to try tutorial examples in the browser, but can also be used to try code on different Robot Framework versions or for sharing code on forum or slack.
- Different number and type of files configuration can be found here.

Resources

RobotFramework Youtube Channel with speaches from previous Robocon and tutorials in the live section.
Robocon 2020
- Playlist
RoboCon 2019
RoboCon 2018
Official Docs
Books
MOOCs
Theses
- Data-Driven and Keyword-Driven Test Automation Frameworks Master’s Thesis, Pekka Laukkanen (2006)
- Web Application Test Automation with Robot Framework Bachelor’s Thesis, Jani Luostarinen (2015)
- Enabling Self-healing Locators for Robot Framework with Large Language Models Master’s thesis, Paavo Rohamo (2024)
Shared Code Repositories
- MarketSquare A community run collection of repositories for Robot Framework. Originally featured in a RoboCon 2020 lightning talk presented by Edward Manlove.
Cookbooks
- Robot Framework recipes

Trainings

RFCP Training Providers Official page of the RFCP accredited training providers

Wrappers

robotframework-webservice Webservice for running Robot Framework test cases.
robotframework-aio RobotFramework AIO (All In One) installer for both Windows and Linux.