Manual input (Captcha) with Robot Framework? - robotframework

Question

I'm writing an acceptance test for web using Robot Framework + Selenium2Library. The point is that web contain some input field that I can not automate (CAPTCHA), and I can't tell my vendor to turn off this feature while running test. So I have to input this field manually. Now I'm doing this:
Create User
[Arguments] ${username} ${password}
Open Browser ${URL} ${BROWSER}
Input Text username ${username}
Input Text password ${password}
Sleep 10 # XXX input CAPTCHA manually here!
Click Button submit
Page Should Contain ${username} has been created.
I've input CAPTCHA when I tell Robot Framework to Sleep 10, so far so good. But I wonder is there anyway to tell Robot Framework to wait indefinitely, then continue automate task after I finish input that CAPTCHA?

Answer 1

There is a keyword just for this purpose in the Dialog library that comes with Robot Framework.
Execute Manual Step Please complete the CAPTCHA portion of the form.

Answer 2

I can see a few options:
You can remove sleep and button clicking and do them yourself. Then you can use wait until page contains to continue after you has pushed submit button
Create User
[Arguments] ${username} ${password}
Open Browser ${URL} ${BROWSER}
Input Text username ${username}
Input Text password ${password}
Log Waiting for CAPTCHA
Wait Until Page Contains ${username} has been created. timeout=3600
You can also use Pause Execution keyword from Dialogs-library. This pauses execution until you click OK in a popup.
Create User
[Arguments] ${username} ${password}
Open Browser ${URL} ${BROWSER}
Input Text username ${username}
Input Text password ${password}
Pause Execution Enter captcha
Click Button submit
Page Should Contain ${username} has been created.
The most automated way I can think of is to use a CAPTCHA solving service. I believe they have an API where you send screenshot of your page and get a solved CAPTCHA back. I have never tried them and sharing screenshots of your software may not be an option.

Answer 3

You can also use the command- get value from user.
It opens the pop-up and tell user to insert the text value(Like enter captcha present at page), when user enters the captcha value and click on ok then this value gets insert into captcha window and next operation begins.
Code is:
#Use Library Dialogs
open browser http://sitename ff
input text id=name-id anytext
${Captcha} = get value from user Enter Captcha none none
input text id=captcha-id ${Captcha}
click element id=submit-id
Note: Use "Libray Dialogs" initially