RobotFrameWork:
by means of this Symbol: # it is possible to comment lines
But I don't want to comment lines but skip temporary (for test purposes of the test) from running...
How dan I do that?
(I don't want te mix the lines that have to stay commented with the lines that are temp. comment to not run in the run).
I would pass a flag to robot framework which can be used on lines you want to temporarily stop executing:
robot --variable TEMP_STOP:True smoke_tests.robot
Then in your code add the following snippet on lines you want to skip temporarily for that run:
Run Keyword If '${TEMP_STOP}'!='True' Log Logs If not True
Also ensure there is a default value for the variable in your suite otherwise you will get and error. Thanks for mentioning this in the comments #TodorMinakov
*** Variables ***
${TEMP_STOP} False
To re-enable those lines then you can just pass:
robot --variable TEMP_STOP:False smoke_tests.robot
In all fairness this should be solved through commenting your code by selecting the entire set of code and commenting that and reverse-commenting that same section. This will 'double comment' existing comments and when you reverse the comment on the entire block this will remain commented. In the below example I use RED, but any IDE with support for Robot Framework Script will behave similarly.
Code:
*** Test Cases ***
My Test Case
Log To Console Uncommented Start Keyword
# Log To Console Permanent Commented Keyword
Log To Console Temporary Commented Keyword
# Log To Console Permanent Commented Keyword
Log To Console Temporary Commented Keyword
Log To Console Uncommented End Keyword
Then we comment the section we want, notice the double comments:
Now we reverse the same section by selecting it and perform the toggle (un)comment:
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I implemented test cases for my application and decided to run it everyday. The problem is the result of the previous test will be overwritten by the latest test result. I need to keep them both so I came up with a solution that include the test date and time in the report name, for example; report-202111181704.html (use time in 24-hour format).
I searched through the internet and did not found any solution yet. Anybody here know the solution? or any alternative solution will be fine.
It depends on where you execute your tests. From command line you can save the date to variable. Then use this variable to change the name of generated outputs. For example
date=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S')
robot --output ${date}output.xml --log ${date}log.html --report ${date}report.html test.robot
I found the solution. Instead of setting .html file name, I create a folder and put the result there.
To do this, add --outputdir in pabot command so it's gonna look like this
pabot --pabotlibport $PABOT_PORT --pabotlib --resourcefile ./DeviceSet.dat --processes $thread --verbose --outputdir ./result/$OUTPUT_DIR $ENV
where
$OUTPUT_DIR=`date + "%Y%m%d-%H%M"`
The output folder gonna be like ./result/20220301-2052
I keep on getting this error when running my Robot Framework script:
"Escaping empty cells with '\' before line continuation marker '...' is deprecated. Remove escaping before Robot Framework 3.2."
Here is a sample code:
*** Test Cases ***
Debug
${Str} = Set Variable Rose
: FOR ${Ctr} IN RANGE 1 5
\ Run Keyword If '${Str}' == 'Test' Log Test
\ ... ELSE Log Not Test
I searched for a solution and I only got this link: https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/openbmc/openbmc-test-automation/+/22245/
I can see that they used FOR/END instead of :FOR (which was working fine before).
FOR ${userid} IN RANGE 2 16
${user_info}= Get User Info ${userid}
Run Keyword If "${user_info['user_name']}" != ""
... Run IPMI Standard Command user set name ${userid} ""
END
However, when I try to change my code to use FOR/END, RIDE automatically changes it back to :FOR.
I use RIDE heavily and would like to continue to do so I need it to work around this error. My RIDE is the latest one so upgrade won't work. Any help would be appreciated.
The syntax for the FOR-loop is changed. From the documentation:
Not closing loops with END, escaping keywords inside loops with \, and
using :FOR instead of FOR are all going to be deprecated in Robot
Framework 3.2. Users are advised to switch to the new syntax as soon
as possible.
With your code I can still run the test, but the deprecation warning is shown. To remove the warning this worked for me in Eclipse:
Debug
${Str} = Set Variable Rose
:FOR ${Ctr} IN RANGE 1 5
\ Run Keyword If '${Str}' == 'Test' Log Test
... ELSE Log Not Test
When you remove the escape character in the ELSE line the warning is no longer shown. This is a workaround though, untill a new version of RIDE comes along I guess.
Basically 2 issues:
1. I plan to execute multiple test cases from argument file. The structure would look like that:
SOME_PATH/
-test_cases/
-some_keywords/
-argumentfile.txt
How should i define a suite setup and teardown for all those test cases executed from file (-A file)?
From what i know:
a) I could execute it in file with 1st and last test case, but the order of test cases may change so it is not desired.
b) provide it in init.robot and put it somewhere without test cases only to get the setup and teardown. This is because if I execute:
robot -i SOME_TAG -A argumentfile /path/to/init
and the init is in test_case folder it will execute the test_cases with a specific tag + those in a folder twice.
Is there any better way? Provide it, for example, in argumentfile?
2 How to provide PATH variable in argumentfiles in robotframework?
I know there is possibility to do:
--variable PATH:some/path/to/files
but is it not for test suite env?
How to get that variable to be visible in the file itself: ${PATH}/test_case_1.robot
For your 2nd question, you could create a temporary environment variable that you'd then use. Depending on the OS you're using, the way you'll do this will be different:
Windows:
set TESTS_PATH=some/path/here
robot -t %TESTS_PATH%/test_case_1.robot
Unix:
export TESTS_PATH="some/path/here"
robot -t $TESTS_PATH/test_case_1.robot
PS: you might want to avoid asking multiple, different questions in the same thread
I need to "enable and disable the firewall" continuously using robot framework.
I have written following robot testcase for this purpose:
testcase1
Open Connection 1.1.1.1
Login test test
Write firewall enable
Write commit
Write firewall disable
Write commit
The above testcase doing the task as expected but only one time. But I want to do this continuously (infinite).
Any clue please? Thanks in advance for your help.
You could put it inside a for loop. It is not infinite but if you put large enough value it is close enough for practical purposes. This will create a huge log file.
testcase1
:FOR ${index} IN RANGE 999999
\ Open Connection ${TEST}
\ Rest of code
http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#for-loops
To run truly infinite loop you can do something like this:
Create python file lib.py:
from robot.libraries.BuiltIn import BuiltIn
def call_keyword(keyword):
return BuiltIn().run_keyword(keyword)
def run_endless_loop(f):
while True:
call_keyword(f)
then in your robot file you can do something like this:
*** Settings ***
Library lib.py
*** Keywords ***
My keyword
Log To Console Hello World
*** Test Cases ***
Run endless loop
Run Endless Loop My keyword
This will run endless loop. The only problem left is to how to break the loop, if needed.To break the loop by the condition from robot file you can implement somethin like:
def run_endless_loop(f):
while True:
i = call_keyword(f)
if i == 100:
break
could be a counter, or some string condition, or something else.
I am new to robot framework and wanted to see if i can get any simple code for custom report. I am also fine with answer to my problem. I went through all questions related to report but could not find any specific answer to my problem. currently my report contains log and wanted to see if i can remove log information from reports and save report in specific location. I just want to get PASS/FAIL information in my report. Can any one give me example how i can overcome this problem? I also need to know how i can save my report in different location. Any example would be helpful. Thank you in advance.
There is a tool called Rebot which is part of Robot Framework.
By default, Robot Framework creates XML reports. The XML reports are automatically converted into HTML reports by Rebot.
You can set the location of the output files in the execution by specifying the parameter --outputdir (and thus set a different base directory for outputs).
From the documentaiton:
All output files can be set using an absolute path, in which case they are created to the specified place, but in other cases, the path is considered relative to the output directory. The default output directory is the directory where the execution is started from, but it can be altered with the --outputdir (-d) option. The path set with this option is, again, relative to the execution directory, but can naturally be given also as an absolute path. Regardless of how a path to an individual output file is obtained, its parent directory is created automatically, if it does not exist already.
You can call Rebot yourself to control this conversion.
You can also run Rebot after the test was run in order to create new output on a different location.
See documentation in:
http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#post-processing-outputs
The following example shows how to store the HTML reports in a different location and including only partial data:
rebot --include smoke --name Smoke_Tests c:\results\output.xml --outputdir c:\version1.0\reports
In the example above, we process the file c:\results\output.xml, create a new report called Smoke_Tests that includes only tests with the tag smoke and save it to the output folder c:\version1.0\reports
In addition you can also set the location of the log file (HTML) from the execution.
The command line option --log (-l) determines where log files are created.
The command line option --report (-r) determines where report files are created
Removing log lines can be done a bit differently. If you run rebot --help you'll get the following options:
--removekeywords all|passed|for|wuks|name: * Remove keyword data
from all generated outputs. Keywords containing
warnings are not removed except in `all` mode.
all: remove data from all keywords
passed: remove data only from keywords in passed
test cases and suites
for: remove passed iterations from for loops
wuks: remove all but the last failing keyword
inside `BuiltIn.Wait Until Keyword Succeeds`
name:: remove data from keywords that match
the given pattern. The pattern is matched
against the full name of the keyword (e.g.
'MyLib.Keyword', 'resource.Second Keyword'),
is case, space, and underscore insensitive,
and may contain `*` and `?` as wildcards.
Examples: --removekeywords name:Lib.HugeKw
--removekeywords name:myresource.*
--flattenkeywords for|foritem|name: * Flattens matching keywords
in all generated outputs. Matching keywords get all
log messages from their child keywords and children
are discarded otherwise.
for: flatten for loops fully
foritem: flatten individual for loop iterations
name:: flatten matched keywords using same
matching rules as with
`--removekeywords name:`