Using Robot Framework for testing multiple user logins in the same file

Question

My goal is to use Robot to take a list of login credentials and iterate through the list, logging into the page and essentially proving those users can see the page.

From what I've been finding, I need to use a Template, but I haven't found it very clear how do implement one when you have all the values you want to use in the same robot file.

I've been using https://github.com/robotframework/QuickStartGuide/blob/master/QuickStart.rst and http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#data-driven-style

Based on this example they have:

Templated test case
    [Template]    Example keyword
    first argument    second argument

They don't explicitly show an example of where the data is set up to run the test.

Here's what I have so far:

*** Settings ***
Documentation  Test Access Levels of the new Page
Library  Selenium2Library
Test Template  Security Login Test

*** Test Cases ***

All Users Login Test
  Security Login Test  Login Test
  User1  Pass1
  User2  Pass2
  User3  Pass3    

*** Keywords ***
Enter User Name
    input text  working_username_field    need_to_put_username_here
Enter Password
    input text  working_password_field    need_corresponding_password_here
Click Login
    click element  working_login_button
Enter Store Number
    input text  working_store_field working_store_number
Click Search
    click element  working_search_button
Login Test
        open browser  working_url Chrome
        enter user name
        enter password
        click login
        enter store number
        click search
        go to   working_sub_url

What I don't know is how I then put those parameters into my Keywords so it will go through each on.

I know I could use a file for this, but that seems slightly more complicated, so I want to figure this way out first.

Thanks for any help you can offer!

Answer 1

When you use a suite-level template, each testcase is typically a single row. The first column is the test case name, and additional columns are arguments to the template keyword.

For example:

*** Settings ***
Test Template    Security Login Test

*** Test Cases ***
# test case name  # username                 # password      
Normal user       [email protected]       test123
Admin user        [email protected]    abc123
Banned user       [email protected]   knockknock

*** Keywords ***
Security Login Test
    [Arguments]  ${username}  ${password}

     Enter username  ${username}
     Enter Password  ${password}

     The rest of your code here...

Enter username
    [Arguments]  ${username}
    log  entering username '${username}

Enter password
    [Arguments]  ${password}
    log  entering password '${password}'

The rest of your code here...
    log  another keyword