🤖 QA tests - API

A collection of tests that aim to check for consistency across API versions

Set up

NB : To determine your version of python by default, run

foo@bar:~$ python --version

If the output is Python 2.x.x, please adjust your commands accordingly :

python => python3

pip => pip3

# Navigate to test dir
foo@bar:~$ cd qa-backend-tests

# Create new virtual env
foo@bar:~$ virtualenv qa-ledger
foo@bar:~$ source qa-ledger/bin/activate

# Install requirements
foo@bar:~$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

# Make the Robot libraries visible to python
foo@bar:~$ export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:{/path/to/your/directory}/qa-backend-tests/RobotLibraries"

Running Robot tests

1. Creating a directory for the test reports

   cd qa-backend-tests && mkdir reports

2. Run the tests with the following command :

   robot -T -d reports -n noncritical .

Quick Explanation of Switches Shown

• -T - Short for --timestampoutputs. Creates reports, logs, etc. with the current timestamp so we don't overwrite existing ones upon execution.
• -d - Short for --outputdir. Tells the framework where to create the report files.
• -n - Short for --noncritical. This tells Robot Framework what tag indicates a non-critical test (I've standardized on noncritical to reduce ambiguity).

Additional documentation

• Robot Framework website here
• Robot User Guide documentation here
• Robot's public API documentation (used to write custom libraries) here