Robot Framework browser support

Please check the driver compatiblity for browser.

You might have already known of IE driver. Apart from that you also need to check Python version- Selenium2 version - IE Driver version - IE browser version compatibility.

In addition to @theheadofabroom 's answer, I should add that Internet Explorer does not play well with Robot Framework. Your test might not work for any number of reasons on IE while it may work just fine on FireFox and Chrome, but the most common is timing. IE is just slow enough that when Robot Framework goes to click on the next element, it searches the page for it, but it hasn't loaded in yet. As long as you have the Selenium webdriver for IE installed correctly and have written your Robot Framework code correctly, I'd recommend adding some Sleep keywords between actions to slow your code down and increase the probability that the element you want to click will load before Robot Framework searches the page for it. This is especially true if you're writing for Chrome and want to send it to either Firefox or IE.

Open Browser ${WEBAPPURL} ${BROWSER} is the keyword to open the browser.

• For Firefox you can use firefox/ff instead of ${BROWSER}
• For Google Chrome you can use googlechrome/gc/chrome instead of ${BROWSER}
• For Internet Explorer you can use internetexplorer/ie instead of ${BROWSER}

For Firefox you don't need any driver but IE and Chrome you need to install the drivers

You can find the installers in and info here for Chrome and here for IE

Download IEdriver exe from here and put this exe file in Scripts folder of your Python installation directory. For eg, in my case it is C:\Python27\Scripts.

Ride will now launch IE for you.

Robot class supports keyboard inputs regardless of the browser. It is a class from the java.awt package and not specific to any browser. It is used in automation for performing operations on the web browser(stand alone application) in which a web-page is being automated

Note that it cannot perform operations directly on the web browser as it's a stand alone application, but can make use of keyboard shortcuts to indirectly perform the operation.

For example, if you want to open a new tab in a browser, you can use the Robot class to press Ctrl+t instead of trying to click on the new tab. Code to use it to open a new tab in your program

Webdriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); //FirefoxDriver(), IntrrnetExplorerDriver();
driver.get("......");
//code goes here
//to open a new tab
Robot rob = new Robot();
rob.keyPress(Keys.VK_CTRL);
rob.keyPress(Keys.VK_t);
rob.keyRelease(Keys.VK_CTRL);
rob.keyRelease(Keys.VK_t);
//itetator to switch between the tabs