Run Multiple test suite in same jsession using Robot Framework : Python - robotframework

Question

I have to run multiple test suite in same session and same session cookie in robot framework , since i want to test whether the url is working for all the nodes for doing that i have to hit url with same session cookies , which cannot be set explicitly . So is there any way i can run all the Test Suite in same session . ? or i can run all the test suite in same browser on different tabs .
So the code i tried runs each test suite on each browser page there by end of one browser run deleting session and session cookie created and the new test run will have new cookie and session , so that was the problem so when doing it , it test each test suite with different cookie . but i want it to be tested in same session and cookie .
Can anyone help me on this , this is second time posting this question in Stack.

Answer 1

I don’t know if this works the same way for opening tabs, but you can make test suite setup. Declare your environment and this environment will be shared in all the tests in the suite.
I used it with ssh, but same analogy should work in your case. If you run this code, you can see that the ssh connection exists in both tests, but is only initialized in the suite setup.
*** Settings ***
Library SSHLibrary
Suite Setup Run Keyword SSH Login ${your_host} ${host_name} ${host_pass}
*** Test Cases ***
Test 1
${output}= SSHLibrary.Get Connections
Log ${output}
Test 2
${output}= SSHLibrary.Get Connections
Log ${output}
*** Keywords ***
SSH Login
[Arguments] ${your_host} ${host_name} ${host_pass}
SSHLibrary.Open Connection ${your_host}
SSHLibrary.Login ${host_name} ${host_pass}
you can read more about suite setup and teardown here
https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#suite-setup-and-teardown

Answer 2

For sharing a session, you can just use the Suite Setup to create the session and then use this session for the following tests, for example, you share a session named mysession :
*** Settings ***
Library RequestsLibrary
Library Collections
...
Suite Setup Create session mysession ${my_application_url}
...
Keywords
*** Keywords ***
Login
[Arguments] ${username} ${password}
${header}= Create Dictionary Content-Type=application/json
${body}= Create Dictionary username=${username} password=${password}
${resp}= Post Request mysession /login headers=${header} data=${body}
Log ${resp.content}
Get all users
#Don't create session again
${resp}= Get Request mysession /users
Log ${resp.text}
Tests
*** Test Cases ***
Test login
login tester tester
Test get users
Get all users
In this way, you can do login first, then use the same session in the next test. you could do a teardown to logout if you need. Then the cookie also can be found in ${myresponse.cookies} but the format is CookieJar. I don't use Selenium2Library but I think in this lib, you don't need to parse the CookieJar manually. then if you want to share the cookie, you can just set a global variable for this cookie. There is one similar question: Set session cookie across the test suites in Robot framework