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MongoDB for the robot

6.6.2013 | 2 minutes of reading time

We use the Robot Framework for some time for automated software tests in our projects. In addition, a few of my colleagues deal with the NoSql Database MongoDB (Tutorial MongoDB ). The document management solution Center-Device (Start-Up of Codecentric AG) also uses MongoDB in the backend (Center-Device Architecture-Overview ). So I thought, it’s time for a new Robot-Library: robotframework-mongodblibrary . The version 0.2.1 is ready for download on GitHub (Keyword-Documentation ).

The library is written in Java (Jython) and uses internally the MongoDB Java Driver. Despite limited experience, programming the library was very easy. Thx for the great MongoDB-Documentation 🙂

the first robot test

1*** Settings ***
2Library de.codecentric.robot.mongodblibrary.keywords.MongodbLibrary
3Test Setup Setup MongoDB
4 
5*** Test Cases ***
6should insert given document
7     Insert Document myCollection {say : 'Hello MongoDb!'}
8     Collection Should Exist myCollection
9     Document Should Exist myCollection {say : 'Hello MongoDb!'}
10 
11*** Keywords ***
12Setup MongoDB
13     Connect To Server localhost 27020 robotdb1
14     Drop Database robotdb1

Robot Remote Library

The robot remote library is also on board 🙂 Then you can start the library as a separate server. This is very useful if you want to use python instead of jython in the main test suite.

1*** Settings ***
2Library   Remote    http://localhost:8270
3Test Setup Setup MongoDB
4 
5*** Test Cases ***
6should insert given document
7     Insert Document myCollection {say : 'Hello MongoDb!'}
8     Collection Should Exist myCollection
9     Document Should Exist myCollection {say : 'Hello MongoDb!'}
10 
11*** Keywords ***
12Setup MongoDB
13     Connect To Server localhost 27020 robotdb1
14     Drop Database robotdb1

Before starting the tests you need to start the server by the folowing shell command:

1java -jar build/libs/robotframework-mongodblibrary-0.2.1-with-dependencies.jar --port 8270

MongoDB-Server Embedded

Since the 0.2-Version there is a keyword that starts a MongoDB-Server (of a given Version) within the tests . This is done by the Embedded MongoDB Library . The keyword downloads the server from the MongoDB-Webpage , extracts this to the home directory und starts the MongoDB Daemon in a seperate oprating system process (MongoDB is written in C++). At the end of test the daemon should be terminated by the keyword Shutdown Embedded , that’s a clean shutdown of the database.

1*** Settings ***
2Library de.codecentric.robot.mongodblibrary.keywords.MongodbLibrary
3Suite Setup  Startup Embedded  2.4.4
4Suite TearDown  Shutdown Embedded
5Test Setup Setup MongoDB
6 
7*** Test Cases ***
8should insert given document
9     Insert Document myCollection {say : 'Hello MongoDb!'}
10     Collection Should Exist myCollection
11     Document Should Exist myCollection {say : 'Hello MongoDb!'}
12 
13*** Keywords ***
14Setup MongoDB
15     Connect To Server localhost 27020 robotdb1
16     Drop Database robotdb1

One of the main benefits of the server integration is the resulting clarity of the Robot-Logs. The log messages of the MongoDB Server are written to the Robot-Log and can directly assigned to the keywords:

Usage in other testing frameworks

The library has no dependencies to the robotframework, so you can also use the library with other testing frameworks (e.g. Junit , JBehave ). For this approach there is another download version without dependencies .

have fun with the library 🙂

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