I wrote my First Gherkin Script (first.robot) when running same i am getting "No keyword with name 'Given' found." Error. Is there any Library i have to include or should i do any pip install something??
***
Gherkin Style TC
[Documentation] Let me try this time
Given Environement Setup Ready
When Required URL Get Loaded
Then Wait For Meters List to Appear
And Capture the list of Meters
Then CloseBrowser
***
You have two spaces after Given (and the others) but robot uses two spaces to separate keywords from arguments. You must have only one space after Given, When, etc. otherwise robot will think that Given is a keyword.
Gherkin Style TC
[Documentation] Let me try this time
Given Environement Setup Ready
When Required URL Get Loaded
Then Wait For Meters List to Appear
And Capture the list of Meters
Then CloseBrowser
Some people add extra space before the given/when/then to make things line up nicely:
Gherkin Style TC
[Documentation] Let me try this time
Given Environement Setup Ready
When Required URL Get Loaded
Then Wait For Meters List to Appear
And Capture the list of Meters
Then CloseBrowser
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My robot is made under the producer-consumer model, on the consumer robot side previously I had one cycle (as how normally a consumer robot works) which takes a series of files listed under the work item json file created on the producer robot on the first step, these files are uploaded onto a website, and then checks the status of that same file under a table of the website, the entire workflow is like this:
*** Tasks ***
Consumes file data work items
Open DT webpage
For Each Input Work Item Process work items
Close Browser
But now I have to split the cycle into two:
one cycle takes only the uploading task, then after all the files are finished, a new second cycle should do the check of each file status, but after I configured the robot like this:
*** Tasks ***
Consumes file data work items
Open DT webpage
For Each Input Work Item First cycle
For Each Input Work Item Second cycle
Close Browser
I noticed when I use the 'For Each Input Work Item' on the second cycle, it just got ignored and doesn't execute the listed keywords (just shows it as PASS and doesn't do any keyword order), but if I leave the 'second cycle' task alone, it does all of them, but obviously, doesn't make a cycle for all the work items, so the question is:
How I can load the work items as a FOR cycle without calling the 'For Each Input Work Item' function?
In Robot Framework, when you create a custom keyword using the *** Keyword *** section of .robot file, is there a way to print an INFO message in the log file? I've tried using BuiltIn.Log keyword, but it creates a new keyword section where the INFO is written.
I want to get INFO in custom keyword this way:
Info in Keyword execution
But currently, my only option is: Info inside BuiltIn.Log definition
Is there a way to add INFO directly to my custom keyword without using Python API?
Did you try Log to console Typing text ${User} into text field 'username' like this?
To my knowledge what you are attempting, is unfortunately not doable. This way of embedding messages can be done by the robot.logger or Python's logging api - More info in the Robot Framework User Guide
However in addition to using the Log keyword, you may alleviate the need by first adding a documentation string on your keywords - the first line is always shown in the Documentation section of the keyword. Additionally by enabling Trace on the log file you'll get at least the Arguments and Return values shown on each keyword.
The Documentation is added with the [Documentation] tag similar to
Custom Keyword
[Documentation] This string is shown completely until I leave at least
... One empty row.
...
... This is shown only in the library documentation file.
And logging modes are changed with a launch option -L or --loglevel, to enable Trace mode, simply add the option when launching your robot.
robot -t TestName -s SuiteName -L TRACE .\Path\to\Tests
I am attempting to mock-up a 'robot.properties' file to be utilized within my test cases with the Robot Framework. Inside my robot.properties file it contains things like for example:
project.username=stackoverflow
inside my test case file I have tried several times to 'import' the robot.properties file via adding within Settings: Resource ../path/to/properties and etc (see directory structure below), but when I attempt to pass 'project.username' as an argument to a test it passes it as the literal string value 'project.username' and not the value 'stack overflow'. I am new to Robot, I have implemented this in other languages like Java/C#, but I fully assume that the import is preventing me from accessing my value. Any help would be greatly appreciated, unfortunately this way of driving testing isn't really referenced much online that I can find.
Dir Structure:
Tests/Acceptance/MyTestCase.robot
Tests/robot.properties
If I try Library ../robot.properties I get:
"Import by filename is not supported"
If I try Resource ../robot.properties I get:
"Unsupported file format .properties"
Robot framework doesn't support a ".properties" file.
One solution is to use a variable file, which lets you define variables in python. Since you want to use dot notation, one way is to create a class and define your variables as properties of the class. The variable file can then make an instance of that class as a variable, and you can use extended variable syntax to access the variables.
The advantage to using a variable file over a plain text file is that you can create variables dynamically by calling other python functions. As a simple example, you could create a variable called "now" that contains the current date, or "host" that is the hostname of the machine running the test.
Example:
properties.py
import platform
class Properties(object):
username = "stackoverflow"
password = "SuperSecret!"
hostname = platform.uname()[1]
properties = Properties()
example.robot
*** Settings ***
Variables properties.py
Suite Setup log running on ${properties.hostname}
*** Test Cases ***
Example
should be equal ${properties.username} stackoverflow
I'm currently developing a couple of test cases with robotframework to compare some excel value with value inside our database.
I have to do it inside a specific test case as it is deploy on zephyr.
I am checking each value inside this test case by calling a homemade Keyword that does :
Run Keyword Should Contain ${valeurExcel1} ${valeurBDD1}
Run Keyword Should Contain ${valeurExcel2} ${valeurBDD2}
etc...
I need every single one of those "Should Contain" to be display in a separated row in the report.html
It currently only appear as one row as it is one test case.
Is there anyway to specify to robot framework that i want him to consider every "Should Contain" as a unique test case and to display it in a row on the report.html ?
(Maybe by tagging ?)
No you can't. If you want a row for each "should contain" then each of those call should be made in its own test case.
But I think the problem lies in your "I have to do it inside a specific test case as it is deploy on zephyr". Whatever you need to do before/after a test case, can be done in a "suite setup" (and "suite teardown"). So you could have this kind of architecture:
*** Settings ***
Suite Setup deploy SUT / Zephyr
Suite Teardown shutdown SUT / Zephyr
*** Test Cases ***
tc1
Run Keyword Should Contain ${valeurExcel1} ${valeurBDD1}
tc2
Run Keyword Should Contain ${valeurExcel2} ${valeurBDD2}
I would like to move all my output files to a custom location, to a Run directory created based on Date time during Run time. The output folder by datetime is created in the TestSetup
I have function "Process_Output_files" which will move the files to the Run folder(Run1,Run2,Run3 Folders).
I have tried using the argument-d and used the function "Process_Output_files" as suite tear down to move the output files to the respective Run directory.
But I get the following error "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process". I know this is because the Robot Framework (Ride) is currently using this.
If I dont use the -d argument, the output files are getting saved in temp folders.
c:\users\<user>\appdata\local\temp\RIDEfmbr9x.d\output.xml
c:\users\<user>\appdata\local\temp\RIDEfmbr9x.d\log.html
c:\users\<user>\appdata\local\temp\RIDEfmbr9x.d\report.html
My question is, Is there a way to get move the files to custom location during run time with in Robot Framework.
You can use the following syntax in RIDE (Arguments:) to create the output in newfolders dynamically
--outputdir C:/AutomationLogs/%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2% --timestampoutputs
The above syntax gives you the output in below folder:
Output: C:\AutomationLogs\20151125\output-20151125-155017.xml
Log: C:\AutomationLogs\20151125\log-20151125-155017.html
Report: C:\AutomationLogs\20151125\report-20151125-155017.html
Hope this helps :)
I understand the end result you want is to have your output files in their custom folders. If this is your desire, it can be accomplished at runtime and you won't have to move them as part of your post processing. This will not work in RIDE, unfortunately, since the folder structure is created dynamically. I have two options for you.
Option 1: Use a script to kick off your tests
RIDE is awesome, but in my humble opinion, one shouldn't be using it to run ones tests, only to build and debug ones tests. Scripts are far more powerful and flexible.
Assuming you have a test, test2.txt, you wish to run, the script you use to do this could be something like:
from time import gmtime, strftime
import os
#strftime returns string representations of a date-time tuple.
#gmtime returns the date-time tuple representing greenwich mean time
dts=strftime("%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S", gmtime())
cmd="pybot -d Run%s test2"%(dts,)
os.system(cmd)
As an aside, if you do intend to do post processing of your files using rebot, be aware you may not need to create intermediate log and report files. The output.xml files contain everything you need, so if you don't want to create superfluous files, use --log NONE --report NONE
Option 2: Use a listener to do post processing
A listener is a program you write that responds to events (x_start, x_end, etc). The close() event is akin to the teardown function and is the last thing called. So, assuming you have a function moveFiles() you simply need to create a listener class (myListener), define the close() method to call your moveFiles() function, and alert your test that it should report to a listener with the argument --listener myListener.
This option should be compatible with RIDE though I admit I have never tried to use listeners with the IDE.
At least you can write a custom run script that handles the moving of files after the test case execution. In this case the files are no longer used by pybot.