[fabioz]

Well, I don't know how things were back then, but Robot Framework had many changes in the latest times, so, it's possible things improved from there (thus your past experiences may not match the current state of affairs).

I'd say that it does have some quirks, but if well used it can be a good tool to have in your toolbox.

Disclaimer: I'm currently working on the Robot Framework Language Server extension for VSCode (by Robocorp, which uses Robot Framework to work with RPA -- albeit Robocorp supports well both Python as well as Robot Framework in the platform, there's a high traction on the Robot Framework side and many users enjoy it vs using just Python).

[pjmlp]

Back in the early Robot days you would write the tests on a tabular form, HTML based.

The Python code would parse those HTML tables to execute the code, lovely.

[p_l]

Most common was afaik Excel with export to CSV or TSV, though some people started with Robot IDE (circa 2015-2016 was my last contact)

[pjmlp]

My last contact with Robot was in 2007.