Robot Framework Dashboard

Documentation

Note: This project is still more of less in Proof of Concept state. Software is not in this state suitable for any real use in live environments.

Setup

1. Install nginx and configure it (see nginx section)
2. Create Python3 virtualenv: virtualenv -p python3 [envname]
3. Activate your virtualenv and install requirements pip install -r requirements.pip
4. Test that everything works

• Run rfwebui.py in project folder
• Open browser and go to (by default) http://127.0.0.1:5000/
• Close development server

5. Test Gunicorn's ability to serve the project

• Run gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 wsgi:app in project folder
• Navigate to localhost

nginx configuration

sudo touch /etc/nginx/sites-available/flask_project
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/flask_project /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/flask_project

Add following lines to flask_project file and then restart nginx: sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

server {
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    }

    location /results {
        include proxy_params;
        alias [path_to_results_folder];
        autoindex on;
    }
}

Technologies

• Python 3.5
• Flask
• jQuery 2
• Bootstrap 3

Todo

• Automated installation process
• Ability to abort test execution
• Show real time execution status via WEB UI (Console -page)
  • Show newest execution messages in footer section
• Show more test suite related information (documentation, last run time, pass/total ratio, etc.)
• pabot support
• Handle correctly situations when app has more than 1 user at the same time
• Add user roles?
  • Login page
• Update to Bootstrap 4 and jQuery 3 when Bootstrap 4 is ready
• Python 2 support?