In this blog post I’ll be going through a Test Scenario which involves multiple Test Cases with some interesting checks. I will be covering only the new things I’ve added for this Test Scenario when compared to my earlier posts, which can be found here. Test Suite begins by validating the network status on a particular device, this involves checking protocols such as OSPF, BGP, Interface Status etc. After ensuring network is in steady state, a configuration change is executed and after the change, network is validated again to ensure there has been no network impact.

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It’s been a while since my first blog post as I mentioned there, I’m at a new job (well it’s been 2 months, so ’newish’) and I’ve been busy getting to know the job(as with any job, there is a LOT to learn!).

Learning Robot Framework (RF) has been one of my objectives in these first few months as that is entirely new for me. As I continue to learn and explore RF, I wanted to take some time out to share few things I have learnt. When it comes to network testing, it’s not always about testing features, protocols, it also involves testing the hardware components. In this blog post, I want to discuss one such test scenario. This particular Test scenario would be to restart a FPC numerous times and to check and ensure it comes back up to Online state. This is what we call a Negative Trigger Event Testing. Now imagine having to do this manually, needless to say it’s a time consuming task, this is where RF comes into play.

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In my new job role as a Test Engineer, knowing how to use Robot Framework for Automating Test Cases is crucial, to save time and to make testing more fun! As I’m going through this learning journey, I wanted to blog about it for anyone who is looking to start this journey and also to help me understand things in a better way.

There are plenty of good resources out there which explains the Robot Framework and it’s components. Best place to start would be the Robot Framework Documentation, which shows some interactive examples and very clear explaination. During my learning what I have come to realise is, there are lot of resources around Robot Framework used for Application Testing but there are not a lot of resources focused on Network Testing(or maybe I haven’t been thorough with my search!). That’s also one of the reaons for starting this blog, to give a Network Engineer’s perspective on Robot Framework and use the examples around networking to help us understand this better.

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