I need that all my test cases will perform a set of actions before the test is executed, to do so in __init__.robot I defined:
Test Setup Global Test Setup
The code for Global Test Setup is in __init__.robot. The test execution will fail with:
No keyword name 'Global Test Setup' found.
Can I make this keyword available in all my robot files without adding resource declaration?
Can I define in init a global resource definition?
Related
I'm using robot framework to test a REST API and as such I do have to create many temporary resources (test user or any other resource). Those are abstracted in keyword, but I need to clean them up after each test. But I would like to not worry about cleaning that explicitly in each test since it would require our test case to "play" at different levels of abstraction.
What would be great would be to have the keyword teardown running after the testcase is completed instead of directly after the keyword is completed.
I did some research but haven't found a good way to handle that.
Is there any solution to clean up resources created in a keyword at the end of a test case without doing it explicitly in the test case?
here is a code example to illustrate the situation:
helper.robot
*** Keywords ***
a user exists
create a user
Delete user
actually remove the user
test.robot
Resource helper.robot
*** Test Cases ***
test user can login
Given a user exists
When user login
Then it succeeds
[Teardown] Delete user
What I want is to move the teardown out of the test case to some other way that deletes the user after each test case, but without specifying if in each test case. I don’t want to configure that exact teardown at the setting level since we don’t always use the same resource for all test cases.
https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#test-setup-and-teardown
At the time of writing, the only special tags are robot:exit, that is
automatically added to tests when stopping test execution gracefully,
and robot:no-dry-run, that can be used to disable the dry run mode.
More usages are likely to be added in the future.
2.2.6 Test setup and teardown
Robot Framework has similar test setup and teardown functionality as
many other test automation frameworks. In short, a test setup is
something that is executed before a test case, and a test teardown is
executed after a test case. In Robot Framework setups and teardowns
are just normal keywords with possible arguments.
Setup and teardown are always a single keyword. If they need to take
care of multiple separate tasks, it is possible to create higher-level
user keywords for that purpose. An alternative solution is executing
multiple keywords using the BuiltIn keyword Run Keywords.
The test teardown is special in two ways. First of all, it is executed
also when a test case fails, so it can be used for clean-up activities
that must be done regardless of the test case status. In addition, all
the keywords in the teardown are also executed even if one of them
fails. This continue on failure functionality can be used also with
normal keywords, but inside teardowns it is on by default.
The easiest way to specify a setup or a teardown for test cases in a
test case file is using the Test Setup and Test Teardown settings in
the Setting table. Individual test cases can also have their own setup
or teardown. They are defined with the [Setup] or [Teardown] settings
in the test case table and they override possible Test Setup and Test
Teardown settings. Having no keyword after a [Setup] or [Teardown]
setting means having no setup or teardown. It is also possible to use
value NONE to indicate that a test has no setup/teardown.
*** Settings ***
Test Setup Open Application App A
Test Teardown Close Application
*** Test Cases ***
Default values
[Documentation] Setup and teardown from setting table
Do Something
Overridden setup
[Documentation] Own setup, teardown from setting table
[Setup] Open Application App B
Do Something
No teardown
[Documentation] Default setup, no teardown at all
Do Something
[Teardown]
No teardown 2
[Documentation] Setup and teardown can be disabled also with special value NONE
Do Something
[Teardown] NONE
Using variables
[Documentation] Setup and teardown specified using variables
[Setup] ${SETUP}
Do Something
[Teardown] ${TEARDOWN}
if you provide it in settings , it works as you want you don't have to specify for each test case
I'm using robot framework to test my application
I use teardown in my test.
It works as expected, if my test ends or fails, teardown starts the execution. My problem starts when the teardown execution fails, then I want it to stop.
*** Test Cases ***
Test new data import
Setup test case
Run test case
[Teardown] TearDown test case
Teardown test case
Insert name in filter
Delete user
The scenarios is when "Insert name in filter" fails, I want it to stop running, but it executes the "Delete user" keyword.
Is it possible to prevent?
I finally do some research and see why the use of --exitonfailure (suggested in other answer) didn't work for me,it's because it misses the teardown workflow.
https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#id689 that teardown execution can be stopped
Teardown -> Also they are executed fully even if some of their keywords fail.
So, what I did to solve was use Run Keyword and return Status and Run Keyword if to solve:
*** Test Cases ***
Test new data import
Setup test case
Run test case
[Teardown] TearDown test case
Teardown test case
${filterStatus} Run keyword and return status Insert name in filter
Run keyword if ${filterStatus} Delete user
... ELSE fail Filter filter by name failed
Try this to prevent to executing "Delete user" keyword when calling exitonfailure: http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#stopping-when-first-test-case-fails
Usage: When options are used, they must always be given between the runner script and the data sources
--exitonfailure -x
Example: robot --exitonfailure 01_robot_test.robot
If option --exitonfailure (-X) is used, test execution stops immediately if any critical test fails. The remaining tests are marked as failed without actually executing them.
Is it possible - and if yes, how - to call default teardown defined in the suite, when you've overriding it in a specific test case?
Example:
*** Settings ***
Suite Setup Setup The Environment
Test Teardown Clean The System
*** Test Cases ***
Test the thing
Do something
Create an object
[Teardown] Delete the object # at this point the suite's test case teardown is overriden, "Clean The System" will not be called
The question is there an internal reference to the suite-level Test Teardown, or a setting to force its execution after any custom teardowns in test cases - apart from the obvious
Run Keywords Delete the object AND Clean The System
The latter shifts the responsibility to the person creating the test cases, and can be easily overlooked - esp. in a large suite/long list of keywords.
I don't think there's any way to do what you want. Your obvious solution is the only solution.
I'm new to using robot framework and I'm struggling to get my teardown to work.
It currently looks like:
[Teardown] run keyword if any tests failed KeyFail
When I run the program with code like this, I get the error: Keyword 'Run Keyword If Any Tests Failed' can only be used in suite teardown.
I can change it so that I put it inside it's own test case, however I then get the error that: Test Case contains no keywords.
Please advise me as to what I'm doing wrong. It would be appreciated. Thanks.
Edit:
***Keywords***
Generation
(Some stuff)
KeyFail
log to console Error report being sent.
***Test Cases***
Requires successful generation of file
Generation
Teardown Case
[Teardown] run keyword if any tests failed KeyFail
Edit: And how to fix this problem. Thanks
It looks like you have defined it in the test case teardown instead of the test suite teardown. You can change it to use the Test teardown instead.
Edit: Here are two solutions:
1. Change your keyword to the TEST specific one, Run Keyword If Test Failed which applies to the last executed test, and can only be used in a test teardown.
2. The second is to use Suite Setups / teardowns. These apply to ALL test cases that you run. Like this:
***Settings***
Suite Setup Your Test Setup Keyword
Suite Teardown run keyword if any tests failed KeyFail
***Keywords***
Generation
(Some stuff)
KeyFail
log to console Error report being sent.
***Test Cases***
Requires successful generation of file
Generation
Teardown Case
Stuff to do
# teardown is automatic, and does not need to be called.
I know there is an option in PHPUnit to stop-on-failure but I don't want it to stop when any test fails, just when this specific test fails.
For example, in my setUp I connect to a DB, and in the first test I check if it connected to the correct DB. If that fails, I can't run the rest of the tests.
Use the #depends feature of PHP.
If a test depends on another, it will only be executed if that other test succeeded. Otherwise it will be skipped. This allows you to pinpoint problems better.
Usage: Add a PHPDOC block at the top of the test function that should only be executed when the other test is successful, and add a line #depends testConnectToDb.
See http://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/appendixes.annotations.html#appendixes.annotations.depends and http://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/writing-tests-for-phpunit.html#writing-tests-for-phpunit.test-dependencies for some more details.