[2] The basic ideas for Robot Framework were shaped in Pekka Klärck's masters thesis[3] in 2005.

[4] The framework is written using the Python programming language and has an active community of contributors.

These tables can be written in plain text, tab-separated values (TSV), or reStructuredText (reST) formats files[7] in any text editor or using the Robot Integrated Development Environment (RIDE).

[8] RIDE simplifies writing test cases by providing framework-specific code completion, syntax highlighting, etc.

With SeleniumLibrary,[9] writing tests for web applications is very easy too: This test opens a new Internet Explorer browser window with Google and performs an Internet search for "Hollywood Celebrities" by pressing the button "Google Search".