robot-test-action

This is an example on how a Robotframework test suite can be executed via a Github Action. In this case the Github Action API is used to trigger a run of the test suite.

The test suite will take a URL and a text string as inputs. It will then navigate to the URL and verify that this text string can be found.

Start a test run via Github Actions API

curl --request POST 'https://api.github.com/repos/nilsty/robot-test-action/actions/workflows/14916260/dispatches' \
--header 'Authorization: ...' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "ref": "main",
    "inputs": {
        "run-id": "your workflow run identifier"
        "url": "https://robotframework.org/",
        "text": "Robot Framework"
    }
}'

The URL and text string are definded as input parameters for the github actions workflow. The Authorization for this request can be done via Basic Auth. The user is the Github user name and the password needs to be a Personal Access Token.

Verify that you fetch the right test run

Based on the submitted run-id in your POST request to start the test run, you can identify the workflow run in Github.

The concept of the workflow run identifier is explained here.

Check the test run status

You can check the status of the test run by querying the /actions/runs endpoint. Here is an example:

curl --request GET 'https://api.github.com/repos/nilsty/robot-test-action/actions/runs' | jq '.workflow_runs[0].status'

Output:

"completed"

Check if a test run was successful or has failed

curl --request GET 'https://api.github.com/repos/nilsty/robot-test-action/actions/runs' | jq '.workflow_runs[0].conclusion'

Output:

"success" / "failure"

Retrieve the test report

First you need to get the workflow id of your actions run.

WORKFLOW_ID=$(curl --request GET 'https://api.github.com/repos/nilsty/robot-test-action/actions/runs' | jq '.workflow_runs[0].id')

With the workflow id you will be able to get the artifact download url.

curl --request GET 'https://api.github.com/repos/nilsty/robot-test-action/actions/runs/'${WORKFLOW_ID}'/artifacts' | jq '.artifacts[0].archive_download_url'

From this URL you will be able to download the zipped test report.

Further information

If you need to customize any of the Github Actions API requests, please refer to their REST API reference.

This setup is using the github action joonvena/robotframework-docker-action@v1.0. Which is utelizing the ppodgorsek/docker-robot-framework docker image