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.

Install Robot Framework RIDE through homebrew

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Testing on widerin

Plone test development with robotframework and RIDE

Running acceptance tests in Plone

Use buildout

Install Robot Framework RIDE through homebrew

wxPython