From the course: Robot Framework Test Automation: Level 1 (Selenium)

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Organizing your project files

Organizing your project files

Before we put our hands on the keyboards and write our first script, I want to give you some high level information and visualizations about how we're going to be organizing our project files as we learn Robot Framework. In the previous video, I talked about a layered approach to building a test suite. As a reminder, the test script is going to hold your test cases. The app keyword file is going to hold high level chunky keywords that you create, and those keywords will represent various capabilities your system under test can perform. And the page object files are going to be containers that encapsulate the locators and keywords that are specific to different pages of your system under test. Of course, the various libraries are going to be downloaded and the Selenium WebDrivers are binary files that we've installed, and those are the bridge between the SeleniumLibrary and the browser. So from a folder structure standpoint, our test script is going to go under a test directory while…

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