In Testing, it is most important to understand how to interact with the browser. In this blog, we will be looking for ways to close browser. It is extremely easy to close a browser with a robot framework. Here, we will learn about how to close a browser using the selenium library.
Generally closing the browser is the last step of any automation testing framework so it is usually situated in tear down method.
Also, when we want to close a single browser window we tend to use ‘close browser’ method of the robot framework and if want to quit entire browser window we use ‘close all browser’
Let us discuss the following-
- Project setup for close browser
- Perform the action for closing a browser
- Verify for the same
Project setup for Close a Browser:
Firstly, we must install all prerequisite libraries in our project (for more info about prerequisites you can visit- https://www.neovasolutions.com/2022/07/21/robot-framework-automation-using-selenium-and-python/ )
After this, we can check our libraries by pip list command, or we can check manually also
File > settings > project: robot-automation > python interpreter
After verifying the prerequisite part create a file closeBrowser.robot in the TestCases directory.
— go to the new file > give a name of with .robot >Enter
Keywords:
- Close Browser – Closes single current browser window
- Close all browsers – Closes all browser windows
TestCase:
Step1: Go to any website, in our example, we will be opening Google and Facebook
Step2: Go to https://www.google.com/
Step3: Click on the + icon of the same page and open one more web page that is, https://www.facebook.com/
Step4: Close the browser
Step5: The above step will close done just ‘facebook.com’ but you would still be able to access the older tab which contains ‘google.com’
Step6: Close all browsers (this will quit the entire browser)
***Settings ***
Library SeleniumLibrary
***Variables ***
${browser} chrome
${url1} https://www.google.com/
${url2} http://www.facebook.com/
***Test Cases ***
MyTestCases
open browser ${url1} ${browser}
sleep 2
open browser ${url2} ${browser}
sleep 2
close browser # to close only latest browser(facebook.com)
close all browsers
*** Keywords *** ***Settings*** – To work with robot framework keywords we need to import the selenium library in the settings section because all these keywords are built in the selenium library-
Library SeleniumLibrary
Similarly, we can import other libraries, resource files, and variable files as per our project requirement in this section.
***Variables***– This section contains the defined variables that are used commonly, here we declared variables of browser and URL so we can reuse these variables.
${url} ${browser}
In the same way, we can create more variables like this according to the requirement of the project.
***Test Cases***
Code Explanation:
In the first step, we open 2 different URLs
In the next step, we must close our current browser, so we use keywords
Close browser
This will only close the Facebook URL but still, we would be having our previous URL which is google.com which is running, so to quit the entire browser we would be using
Close all browser
This ends our Test.
Execution:
To execute the Test case we need to use the below command.
After execution, we should get the result as a pass
Report:
