I have robot files in a folder (tests) as shown below:
tests
1_robotfile1.robot
2_robotfile2.robot
3_robotfile3.robot
4_robotfile4.robot
5_robotfile5.robot
6_robotfile6.robot
7_robotfile7.robot
8_robotfile8.robot
9_robotfile9.robot
10_robotfile10.robot
11_robotfile11.robot
Now if I execute '/root/users1/power$ pybot root/user1/tests' command, robot files are running in following order:
tests
1_robotfile1.robot
10_robotfile10.robot
11_robotfile11.robot
2_robotfile2.robot
3_robotfile3.robot
4_robotfile4.robot
5_robotfile5.robot
6_robotfile6.robot
7_robotfile7.robot
8_robotfile8.robot
9_robotfile9.robot
I want to force robot_framework to pick robot files in sequential order, like 1,2,3,4,5....
Do we have any option for this?
If you have the option of renaming your files, you just need to make sure that the prefix is sortable. For numbers, that means they should all have the same number of digits.
I recommend renaming your test cases to have three or four digits for the prefix:
001_robotfile1.robot
002_robotfile2.robot
003_robotfile3.robot
004_robotfile4.robot
005_robotfile5.robot
006_robotfile6.robot
007_robotfile7.robot
008_robotfile8.robot
009_robotfile9.robot
010_robotfile10.robot
011_robotfile11.robot
...
With that, they will sort in the order that you expect.
Following #Emna answer, RF docs ( http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#execution-order ) provides some solution.
So what could you do:
rename all the files to have consecutive and computer numbering (001-test.robot instead of 1-test.robot). This may break any internal references to other files (resources), hard to add test in-between,error prone when execution order needs to be changed
you can tag it as Emna
idea from RF docs - write a script to create argument file which will keep ordering in proper way and use it as argument to robot execution. For 1000+ files it should not take longer than few seconds.
try to design tests to not be dependent from execution order, use suite setup instead.
good luck ;)
Tag the tests as foo and bar so you can run each test separately:
pybot -i foo tests
or
pybot -i bar tests
and decide the order you want
pybot -i bar tests || pybot -i foo tests
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For an example, I have created some feature for automation testing using Behave login_account.feature and choose_product.feature. To run on a single feature, I use this command on the terminal behave -f behave_html_formatter:HTMLFormatter -i login_account.feature.
I want to run on multiple feature login_account.feature and choose_product.feature in one command on the terminal. Anyone, can you give me the example command to run multiple feature using Behave in one command on the terminal?
Thank you in advance.
I think there might be two issues:
I'm not sure if that's the way to run with that formatter. See behave-html-formatter docs for config and example. I can't trial myself as I don't want/need this formatter installed. I would suggest you worry about this after you understand how to run multiple features, which is where issue #2 comes in.
-i expects a single argument, which is a regular expression pattern.
Assuming you are in your features folder, just list the two features with space separator after the behave command:
behave login_account.feature choose_product.feature
Better still, you could use tags. This makes way more sense if you want to run more than the two files in your example. Add a tag at the top of each of the feature files you want to execute e.g. #runme.
Then execute only the ones having the preferred tag:
behave -t #runme
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
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 was looking for a way to run selective tests on run time. Found each test can be marked using #pytest.mark.
import ...
#pytest.mark.feature1
#pytest.mark.priority1
or something like : #pytest.mark(Feature.feature1, Priority.priority2)
def m1
def m2
..
Now I need to run test scripts which are marked as feature1, without giving the script name.
Something like (not sure about command)
py.test -m "feature1"
It should pick all scripts which are marked as feature1 in test suite as other scripts might be marked as feature2..n as well.
Please suggest:
above way to mark tests and pick on run time is suggested or not?
Do I need to have classes to mark test? I believe above way will mark complete test.
What is the command to pick marked test from complete test suite?
Thanks!!
I think you are looking for is the -m option of py.test.
After marking tests with different labels (using the #pytest.mark.label, where label is feature1 or whatever you want), you can run all the feature1 marked tests using:
py.test -m feature1
This will run only the tests marked with the 'feature1' label.
Marked tests can be combined:
py.test -m "feature1 or feature2"
or skipped using not, such as
py.test -m "not (feature1 or feature2)"
I think you are looking for #pytest.mark.skipif
This will skip tests according to condition you put in marker . You can use a string in if condition to skip the desired tests
Ok, in that case this might be the answer pytest -k string select all tests that contains the string in their name and run it
I'm busy porting my build process from msbuild to cmake, to better be able to deal with the gcc toolchain (which generates much faster code for some of the numeric stuff I'm doing).
Now, I'd like cmake to generate several versions of the output, stuff like one version with sse2, another with x64, and so on. However, cmake seems to work most naturally if you simply have a bunch of flags (say, "sse2_enable", and "platform") and then generate one output based on those platforms.
What's the best way to work with multiple output configurations like this? Intuitively, I'd like to iterate over a large number of flag combinations and rerun the same CMakeLists.txt files for each combination - but of course, you can't express that within the CMakeLists.txt files (AFAIK).
The recommended way to do this is to simply have multiple build directories. From each one you simply call cmake with the required settings.
For example you could do, starting in the base source directory (using Linux shell syntax but the idea is the same):
mkdir build-sse2 && cd build-sse2
cmake .. -DENABLE_SSE2 # or whatever to enable it in your CMakeLists.txt
make
cd ..
mkdir build-x64 && cd build-x64
cmake .. -DENABLE_X64 # or whatever again...
make
This way, each build directory is completely separated from each other.
This allows you to have one directory for Debug, another for Release and another for cross-compiling.
There hasn't been much activity here, so I've come up with a workable solution myself. It's probably not ideal, so if you have a better idea, please do add it!
Now, it's hard to iterate over build configs in cmake because cmake's crucial variables don't live in function scope - so, for instance, that means if you do include_directories(X) the X directory will remain in the include list even after the function exits.
Directories do have scope - and while normally each input directory corresponds to one output directory, you can have multiple output directories.
So, my solution looks like this:
project(FooAllConfigs)
set(FooVar 2)
set(FooAnotherVar b)
add_subdirectory("project_dir" "out-2b")
set(FooVar 5)
set(FooAnotherVar c)
add_subdirectory("project_dir" "out-5c")
set(FooVar 3)
set(FooAnotherVar b)
add_subdirectory("project_dir" "out-3b")
set(FooVar 3)
set(FooAnotherVar c)
add_subdirectory("project_dir" "out-3c")
The normal project dir then contains a CMakeLists.txt file with code to set up the appropriate includes and compiler options given the global variables set in the FooAllConfigs project, and it also determines a build suffix that's appended to all build outputs - any even indirectly included output (e.g. as generated by add_executable) must have a unique name.
This works fine for me.