Robot Framework: How to build teardown dynamically - robotframework

Question

I am trying to build teardown actions dynamically in my test case. For e.g. for every step in the test case I am having a corresponding teardown step. So depending on at which point the test case fails, I am trying to run only those many clean actions in the teardown.
I am expecting something like below to work (unfortunately Run Keywords need to have AND mentioned specifically in the syntax)
*** Settings ***
Library Collections
*** Test Cases ***
Sample Test1
${Cleanup KWS}= Create List Log Cleanup Step1
Log Test Step1
${Cleanup KW}= Create List Log Cleanup Step2 AND
${Cleanup KWS}= Combine Lists ${Cleanup KW} ${Cleanup KWS}
Log Test Step2
${Cleanup KW}= Create List Log Cleanup Step3 AND
${Cleanup KWS}= Combine Lists ${Cleanup KW} ${Cleanup KWS}
Log Test Step3
[Teardown] Run Keywords #{Cleanup KWS}
If the above is possible, the test case execution might be more efficient (if test fails in-between) and/or I can avoid unnecessary failures in the teardown stage.
Is there any other elegant way to support the above kind of desired behavior?

Answer 1

You can do this by defining each teardown step in the Keywords sections:
*** Keywords ***
Teardown_Step_1
log to console Teardown for step 1
Teardown_Step_2
log to console Teardown for step 2
Teardown_Step_3
log to console Teardown for step 3
Execute teardown steps
[Documentation] Execute a list of keywords
[Arguments] #{keywords}
[Return] #{result}
#{result}= create list
FOR ${keyword} IN #{keywords}
${keyword result}= Run keyword ${keyword}
Append to list ${result} ${keyword result}
END
And then in the test you can use the above keywords like this:
Sample Test1
#{teardown_list} = create list
Log Test Step1
append to list ${teardown_list} Teardown_Step_1
Log Test Step2
append to list ${teardown_list} Teardown_Step_2
Log Test Step3
append to list ${teardown_list} Teardown_Step_3
[Teardown] Execute teardown steps #{teardown_list}