Installation

Python 3.10+ is required to install nac-test. Don’t have Python 3.10 or later? See Python 3 Installation & Setup Guide.

Platform-specific requirements:

• Linux: Python 3.10 or higher
• macOS: Python 3.12 or higher (earlier versions have known fork/SSL incompatibilities with PyATS)
• Windows: Python 3.10 or higher, Robot Framework tests only (PyATS libraries are not available on Windows; use WSL2 for PyATS tests)

nac-test can be installed in a virtual environment using pip or uv:

# Using uv (recommended)
uv tool install nac-test

# Using pip
pip install nac-test

The following Robot libraries are included with nac-test:

• robotframework-requests
• robotframework-jmespath
• robotframework-jsonlibrary
• robotframework-pabot for parallel test execution

Any other libraries can of course be added via pip or uv. Note that as of nac-test 2.0, RESTinstance is no longer bundled by default; install it separately if needed.