Plone test development with robotframework and RIDE

Running acceptance tests in Plone Test driven development (TDD) can be a pain. If you are working with Zope and Plone most of time gets consumed starting up Zope running setUp method and rolling back transaction in tearDown method. So why not use a running already set-up instance for test-development? Today I will show you how to reach that goal. It’s not as hard as it seems. Use buildout Of course we use buildout to get a custom script which we can run through RIDE. I configured a new pybot script, the basic idea has been implemented in plone.act1 module already. ...

November 29, 2012 Â· 2 min Â· 256 words Â· dw

Install Robot Framework RIDE through homebrew

Python, wxPython and robotframework RIDE on your macOS. Update 2016, 23 Feb Fixed wxPython installation so it works with most recent versions available today. Update 2017, 03 Jul Seems this installation method no longer works on >= MacOS Sierra. Please use a docker image and Ride in browser. wxPython Since wxPython is available on homebrew you don’t have to install the package provided on the wxPython website. $ brew info wxpython wxPython: stable 3.0.2.0 (bottled) Python bindings for wxWidgets https://www.wxwidgets.org/ /usr/local/Cellar/wxPython/3.0.2.0 (1,107 files, 38.2M) Poured from bottle From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/wxpython.rb ==> Dependencies Required: wxmac ✔ ==> Options --universal $ brew install wxpython This will take some time so be patient. ...

October 16, 2012 Â· 2 min Â· 364 words Â· Daniel