Tips and Tricks

These tips and tricks will greatly help us in developing our Robot Tests.

1. Open vscode > CTRL + SHIFT + x > Search and install these extensions:

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2. Open vscode > File > Preferences > Settings > Type “json” > Click “Edit in settings.json”

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- Add this line: It will prevent the annoying double click to open a file

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3. Open vscode > CTRL + SHIFT + C = it will open a terminal in the current directory of the folder you opened in the vscode

4. Open vscode > CTRL + p = this will open the search bar for suite files, keyword resource files and variable resource files.

5. Open vscode > CTRL + SHIFT + f = this will open the search bar for keywords and variable names

6. Reading materials:

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https://robotframework.org/⁠

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https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html⁠

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https://devhints.io/xpath⁠

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https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp⁠

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https://robotframework.org/Selenium2Library/Selenium2Library.html#Click%20Element⁠

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