How do I run test cases for a class written in Java, using Robot framework?

Question

I am trying to learn how to use Robot Framework. I created simple Java project, using Eclipse. It contains one package - test and in this package there is only one class - MyKeywords . Here is the class content:

package test;

public class MyKeywords {

    public String sayHi(String name)
    {
            return "Hello " +name ;
    }

    public String sayHi()
    {
            return "Hello World!";
    }

    public String typeOf(Object param)
    {
            return param.getClass().getSimpleName();
    }
} 

Then I created simple .txt file, whic is supposed to contain the test cases. Here is the my_suite.txt file:

*** Settings ***
Library           test.MyKeywords

*** Test Cases ***
MyTestCase
    ${message}    say hi
    Log    ${message}

MyTestCase2
    ${message}    say hi    my_name
    Log    ${message}

MyTestCase3
    ${message}    type of    42
    Log    ${message}

Whenever, I try to paste the my_suite.txt file into the project directory, it goes under the bin directory. After that, when I run pybot my_suite.txt from the terminal (I am on Mac OS), I got the following message:

[ ERROR ] Error in file '/Users/b18/Documents/workspace/Example/my_suite.txt': Importing test library 'test.MyKeywords' failed: Module 'test' does not contain 'MyKeywords'. ============================================================================== My Suite

============================================================================== MyTestCase
| FAIL | No keyword with name 'say hi' found. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MyTestCase2
| FAIL | No keyword with name 'say hi' found. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MyTestCase3
| FAIL | No keyword with name 'type of' found. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My Suite
| FAIL | 3 critical tests, 0 passed, 3 failed 3 tests total, 0 passed, 3 failed ============================================================================== Output: /Users/b18/Documents/workspace/Example/output.xml Log:
/Users/b18/Documents/workspace/Example/log.html Report: /Users/b18/Documents/workspace/Example/report.html

Where is my mistake and what am I missing?

Answer 1

You're mixing languages here.

You are using Java keywords, with pybot (which is pure python - and doesn't support java).

You need to use jybot instead (you can download the jar and run it with java)

Jybot is based on Jython - and supports python and java code.