Setup Robot Framework pipeline with GitLab CI / CD - continuous-integration

Question

So i have written my automated Robot Framework tests and they are in a GitLab repo. I want to run these automatically once a day.
Is this possible?
Do I need a .gitlab-ci.yml file for it? (if yes what do I put in it?)

Answer 1

Yes you can totally run the robot tests in gitlab ci.
so answer
Yes its very much possible , infact that is how you execute pipeline tests . You just need to build a Dockerfile that has the things you need to execute the framework inside docker. Here's the sample dockerfile. I would suggest you wrap the .robot script to run from bash script (like robot -d *.robot).
FROM ubuntu:18.04
ENV LANG=C.UTF-8 LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
RUN apt-get update --fix-missing && \
apt-get install -y python3-setuptools wget git bzip2 ca-certificates curl bash chromium-browser chromium-chromedriver firefox python3.8 python3-pip nano && \
apt-get clean && \
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
RUN wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.27.0/geckodriver-v0.27.0-linux64.tar.gz
RUN tar xvf geckodriver*
RUN chmod +x geckodriver
RUN mv geckodriver /usr/bin
RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.6 1
RUN update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python3 python3 /usr/bin/python3.8 2
RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip
RUN ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python
RUN ln -s /usr/bin/pip3 /usr/bin/pip
RUN pip install rpaframework
COPY . /usr/src/
ADD robot.sh /usr/local/bin/robot.sh
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/robot.sh
WORKDIR /usr/src
Now you need .gitlab-ci.yml in your repository to have a content like this.
stages:
- build
- run
variables:
ARTIFACT_REPORT_PATH: "${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/reports"
build_image:
stage: build
variables:
DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG: ${CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE}:${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}
script:
- docker build -t ${DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG} .
after_script:
- docker push ${DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG}
- docker logout
robot_tests:
stage: run
variables:
DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG: ${CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE}:${CI_COMMIT_TAG}
image: ${DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG}
script:
- robot-test.sh
artifacts:
paths:
- $ARTIFACT_REPORT_PATH
when: always
That should be it and once the job finishes you would see the output in the job at the path location in the repository.