Plone test development with robotframework and RIDE

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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.

RobotFramework on widerin

Plone test development with robotframework and RIDE

Running acceptance tests in Plone

Use buildout