Remote server for Robot Framework implemented with Python.

Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework implemented with Python that also runs on Jython (JVM) and IronPython (.NET). Its testing capabilities can be easily extended with generic and custom test libraries implemented using Python and also Java when using Jython. It also has a remote library interface that allows using test libraries implemented using other languages or running on different machines.

The remote library architecture consists of Remote test library that is part of normal Robot Framework installation and separate language specific remote servers. This project contains Python implementation of the remote server.

CONTENT BELOW (AND ALSO ABOVE) WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Examples on how test libraries can use the remote servers can be found from example directory. These example libraries can be started with commands:

python example/examplelibrary.py
jython example/examplelibrary.py
ruby example/examplelibrary.rb

Note that all the above commands require that language's module search path is set so that the respective remote server module can be imported. By default the servers listen to connections to localhost on port 8270, but this can be configured like:

python example/examplelibrary.py localhost 7777
ruby example/examplelibrary.rb 192.168.0.1 8270

These examples will start the remote server so that it provides keywords implemented in the example module. After the remote server is started, an example test case file can be executed using the familiar pybot or jybot commands, possibly giving the port where the server is listening as a variable:

pybot example/remote_tests.html
jybot example/remote_tests.html
pybot --variable PORT:7777 example/remote_tests.html 

The results should be the same regardless of the example library or start-up script used.

Tests for the remote servers are inside test directory. Acceptance tests can be executed using tests/run.py script and running the script without arguments provides more information. Notice that tests are not included in source distributions.