Robot Framework Essentials

Robot Framework Essentials is a hands-on course in eight parts. It starts with your first suite and ends with running Robot Framework in CI. Each lesson pairs a short concept with tasks you do in your own VS Code workspace, then a quiz and the lesson’s key terms.

Before you start

1. Read How this course works.
2. Pick how you run Python and get the labs: Labs & choosing how you run.
3. Start with What Robot Framework is.

You need Python 3.13 or newer and one environment manager: uv (recommended, and it installs Python 3.13 for you when it is missing), venv, or poetry. Install the RobotCode extension in VS Code for syntax highlighting, running and debugging. Part 2 (Web Testing) also needs Node.js.

From chapter 2 on, every chapter has a lab: a small, ready-to-run project you download as a .zip, open in VS Code and set up with one command. The starter kit below holds all labs at once.

Quiz answers, ticked tasks and your runner choice stay in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Note

This is the web edition of Robot Framework Essentials 0.9.3. The same course runs inside VS Code as the Robot Framework Essentials extension, which also checks your work. Content imported from rf-training-platform commit caafd14 (2026-07-22).

The eight parts

1. Part 1Fundamentals8 chapters · 22 lessons
2. Part 2Web Testing3 chapters · 8 lessons
3. Part 3API Testing2 chapters · 5 lessons
4. Part 4Files & Processes2 chapters · 5 lessons
5. Part 5Text & XML2 chapters · 5 lessons
6. Part 6Custom Libraries with Python4 chapters · 10 lessons
7. Part 7Hooking into Execution3 chapters · 6 lessons
8. Part 8Running Robot Framework for Real4 chapters · 8 lessons

Starter kit

All 29 labs in one download, one folder per lab, each with its own LAB.md.

Download rf-essentials-starter-kit.zip (272 KB)