Is it possible to call a robot framework file from another robot framework file. Can some one give examples of it
Requirement
We have some tests which are of repetitive nature. The idea is to have these tests present in a Robot file which can be called into the main robot tests file. This will allow us to keep adding to the list of repetitive tests and all the new / old tests will be available for the main tests.
Any examples will help. Thanks.
-KK
Tests (or Test cases) are not reusable components in robot framework. Tests exist to perform verifications. Once those verifications have been made, there's no point in running the test again in the same test run.
Even though tests can't call other tests, they can call user keywords, which is the foundation of robot framework. If you have bits of functionality that you want to be reusable, you put that functionality in keywords, and then you can use those keywords in as many tests as you want.
For example, lets say that you need to send a signal to a device and check for a light to come on. Instead of writing a test that does this, and then repeating the test over and over, you create a keyword that sends the signal, and a keyword that verifies the light is on, and then call these keywords from multiple tests (or one data-driven test).
Yeah.
Just declare the file that you wish to call in Settings section of your code as specified below.
Resource ../common/Resource_Apps.robot
Now you can use or call all the keywords written in this resource file.
just import the another robot as a Resource
Settings:
Library PythonLibrary.py
Resource <Folder_Name>/Example.robot
Related
I have 2 Testcases within a Robot suite. This suite is like the Initialization Suite which has a dependency on an underlying framework(UF).
UF has different folder structure for the main Initialization Suite, Functional Suites and few other tools and calls them with separate robot commands. So I cannot store variables with Set Global Variables during initialization but have to create resource files which I will import in Functional Suites.
TC1: Parses a json file and creates a variables.txt file.
TC2: Uses few variables stored in variables.txt and logs into server the gets the node details and stores in hostname.txt
Is there a way to import/source the variables.txt within TC2 ?
Looking for this implementation, as there are Common User Keywords(CUKW) which will also need this variables.txt. As this is dynamically generated I cannot define it as Resource in Settings section in CUKW.
New to Robot framework, Apologies for any misunderstanding. Any better implementation suggestions are most welcome.
Thanks in Advance!
You can use the import resource keyword.
Imports a resource file with the given path.
Resources imported with this keyword are set into the test suite scope similarly when importing them in the Setting table using the Resource setting.
I have a BDD-style test case in my robot framework. Which is calling the API. There is a variable in API, which value changes. So I want to write only one test case and want that variable to be changed after one has executed.
Please find the code below:
*** Variables ***
${Upload_Project_Asset_To_Flagship_API} /workstream/api/projects/${projectId}/assets/${assetId}/external?debug=1&user_id=${userId}
*** Test Cases ***
TC_01:
When User Executes Upload Asset To Flagship API
Then Assert the response after asset upload
[Teardown] User gets the uploaded file details
*** Keywords ***
User Executes Upload Asset To Flagship API
${resp}= Put request session1 ${Upload_Project_Asset_To_Flagship_API} headers=${api_header}
This is an old question, but for anyone landing here:
It is perfectly possible to combine Given When Then descriptions with Data driven tests - also in Robot Framework. Many BDD tools (e.g. Cucumber) use a list of "Examples" under the GWEN.
With standard Robot Framework, template tests can be used to list data, but only one template can be used in a suite.
To support Examples in a more natural way, I have written the Robot Framework library RobotFramework-Examples.
I want only test scenarios in the Log file of the report generated in the Robot Framework but while clicking upon the Test Scenarios the test scripts is getting expanded and the Test steps are clearly visible how can stop this issue
I have attached the screenshots I want to achieve this
But I am getting this type of Log Report
In Robot Framework userguide there is an entire section dedicated to this functionality: Removing and Flattening Keywords. In your case I think that the --removekeywords all or the --removekeywords passed should be of particular interest.
I have used --dryrun along with my pybot command; I want to know what exactly it validates for in testcase or in library.
It parses all of the test suites and executes the tests. It does not execute any keywords, but it does parse them for correctness. The main benefits listed by the user guide are:
Using keywords that are not found.
Using keywords with wrong number of arguments.
Using user keywords that have invalid syntax.
In addition to these failures, normal execution errors are shown, for example, when test library or resource file imports cannot be resolved.
For more information see http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#dry-run
I have a robot test suite that contains child test suites, and those have their own child test suites.
All tests use a certain set of variables and libraries.
As far as I can tell, I have to define the variables and import the libraries in every single test suite. I hope I'm just missing a trick -- is there a better way to make these things available to all tests at all levels of the hierarchy?
Bonus points if I can do it in a way that supports keyword completion in RIDE. I'm using RIDE 1.2.3 and robot 2.8.3
Create one main resource where you import everything and then import only that main resource in every test suite.
You can wire a resource file and polulate it with Keywords that can be imported into your test suites and test cases.
Read the detailed explaination.