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Introduction

Robotframework-DebugLibrary is A debug library for RobotFramework, which can be used as an interactive shell(REPL) also.

Installation

Installation is done just as for any other Python library. Using the pip or easy_install command from setuptools is the easiest.

To install using pip:

pip install robotframework-debuglibrary

To install using easy_install:

easy_install robotframework-debuglibrary

Usage

You can use this as a library, import DebugLibrary and call Debug keyword in your test files like this:

*** Settings ***
Library         DebugLibrary

** test case **
SOME TEST
    # some keywords...
    Debug

Or you can run it standalone as a RobotFramework shell:

$ rfshell
[...snap...]
>>>>> Enter interactive shell, only accepted plain text format keyword.
> log  hello
> get time
<  '2011-10-13 18:50:31'
> import library  String
> get substring  helloworld  5  8
< 'wor'
> ${secs} =  Get Time  epoch
<  ${secs} = 1474814470
> Log to console  ${secs}
1474814470
> @{list} =  Create List    hello    world
<  @{list} = [u'hello', u'world']
> Log to console  ${list}
[u'hello', u'world']
> &{dict} =  Create Dictionary    name=admin    [email protected]
<  &{dict} = {u'name': u'admin', u'email': u'[email protected]'}
> Log  ${dict.name}
> help selenium
Start a selenium 2 webdriver and open google.com or other url in firefox or other browser you expect.
selenium  [<url>]  [<browser>]
> selenium  http://www.google.com/  chrome
import library  Selenium2Library
open browser  http://www.google.com/  chrome
> close all browsers
> Ctrl-D
>>>>> Exit shell.