Currently I am setting pythonpath as pybot --pythonpath ~/Test_suite main.robot while running the tests.
I also see there is option Set Environment Variable PYTHONPATH ${CURDIR} to set through robot framework. But it doesn't run before main settings
*** Settings ***
Documentation Suite description
Resource settings.robot
And below is settings.robot file
*** Settings ***
Resource keywords/keywords_test.robot
Library tests.test_1.TestClass
How to setup the pythonpath before running the suite?
You can't do what you want. The settings are all processed before any test or keyword is run. You can use the --pythonpath option from the command line, or set the environment variable PYTHONPATH before starting your test.
You can do it by adding to sys.path in suite init.
E.g. you can create __init__.robot file in tests directory with:
*** Settings ***
Suite Setup Setup before all tests
*** Keywords ***
Setup before all tests
evaluate sys.path.append(os.path.join("path", "to", "library")) modules=os, sys
Described in official docs: http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#configuring-sys-path-programmatically
I'm not sure if this would work, but I think there actually might be a way to do what you're talking about. It's pretty jenky, so bear with me.
You can't really do it in Robot Framework, but if you expand your horizons to Python, there's a neat little exploit I've found. If you take a look in other posts how to create a custom Python Library for Robot framework, you'll notice that there's a required method called __init__ with parameters of (self). I believe that this is the very first code to run when the Library instance is created. Little-known fact, you can add parameters to the creation of the Library instance. In your case, ~/Test_suite would be the value that you would pass.
IN THEORY, because I haven't tried this, you could tell __init__(self, path_in) to run your BuiltIn keyword with the following code:
self.BuiltIn().set_environment_variable('PYTHONPATH', path_in)
Don't forget to use the following import statement at the top of the file.
from robot.libraries.BuiltIn import BuiltIn
Related
We are developing / publishing robot-tests in a git environment, where the public (published) git has slightly different settings then the development git (due to personal work-space (development) vs global environment settings).
Because of this one of our robot keywords is different for development and public.
Currently we manage this by commenting out 1 line in the keyword's .robot implementation for the development git and another one for the public git, but this is error prone.
Is it possible to call pybot with some extra command-line options which will be passed on via the .robot files to the python files implementing the final keywords so we can move the 2 lines from the .robot file to the python implementation and decide which to use based on the given command-line option?
Check the Setting variables in command line part of the user guide. With the --variable MYVAR:value command line argument you can create global variables.
For example:
*** Variables ***
${VAR} localenv # this is not necessarily needed, it is used to set default value
*** Test Case ***
Test
IF '${VAR}' == 'localenv'
Log Do this
ELSE IF '${VAR}' == 'globalenv'
Log Do that
END
Run locally
robot test.robot
on global:
robot --variable VAR:globalenv test.robot
Below image is the sample reference of the robot code I have written. I have imported Selenium2Library, there were no errors but in test case section of Robot framework its not getting recognized.
Sample Robot Code
clearly, under settings section, we see that the library selenium2library is not being recognized?
I hope you have installed the "robotframework-selenium2library". if not, please use the following pip command
pip install robotframework-selenium2library
I have referred your image and I could see there is a syntax error while you import a library.
In Robot test file settings sections, while importing a library the syntax should be
Library YouDesiredLibrary
In this case it is
Library Selenium2Library
Once you are done with all the imports you have the define any variables you want to use for your test case which you have done correctly.
In the test cases Table/section
You need to call open the URL, you need to user Open Browser keyword with browser name and URL ans arguments
Please try this and let me know.
Robot Framework provides the File Should Exist Keyword in both OperatingSystem and SSHLibrary. This is true for some other Keywords as well but just taking this as an example.
My question is how do I tell my test case which Keyword I am intending to use?
I believe File Should Exist from OperatingSystem works on the local file system (where the TC is being run) and the File Should Exist from SSHLibrary works on the remote server file system. Or am I wrong here too?
You can use both keywords by prefixing the library's name to the keyword.
*** Test Cases ***
Sample Test
SSHLibrary.File Should Exit ${args}
OperatingSystem.File Should Exist ${args}
You'll find more about handling keywords with the same name in the user guide.
You are right. File Should Exist from OperatingSystem works on the local file system (where the TC is being run) and the File Should Exist from SSHLibrary works on the remote server file system.
But you are connecting to a remote system from local. After connecting to remote if you want to do some operation on local you can by using the OperatingSystem library keywords.
So, when you have keywords with the same name in different libraries use the library name as prefix.
*** Test Cases ***
Sample Test
SSHLibrary.File Should Exit ${args}
SSHLibrary.Get File <filename>
OperatingSystem.File Should Exist ${args}
In the above case even though you connected to remote system, still you can do operations on local system.
The below is the code present in parallel_tests.txt
*** Settings ***
Library Parallel
*** Test Cases ***
Runner
Run Parallel Tests Hello World
Hello
[Tags] parallel
Log Hello123
World
[Tags] parallel
Log World123
I am trying to execute this test case file
from terminal using jybot as below:
jybot parallel_tests.txt;
I am getting the following error:
No keyword with name 'Run Parallel Tests' found.
How to execute both test cases Hello and World ,in parallel in robot framework using parallel library.
Slightly different use case but have you tried using pabot?
I haven't gone down the rabbit hole with this one so don't have an in-depth understanding but I do use it for cross-browser tests via sauceLabs. It will work differently from how you want in that it does parallel runs but by test suite rather than test case level. Perhaps this is configurable? Unfortunately as mentioned I just know enough to get it working for my needs and haven't done a deep dive.
Any questions let me know and I'll try to help.
Here's a quick example as requested, I've stripped lots of our stuff which is useless in your case but left some in so you can see how to build up. I changed the processes parameter from %processes% to 2, the end result is the same, in my case these values are coming from a teamcity build configuration:
pabot --processes 2 --variable environment:%environment% --name OS_X_10.9-Firefox --variable browser:%browser% --listener robot-tc-listener --include %includetags% --exclude %exclusiontags% --outputdir %PabotResults_DIR% --output output.xml --report report.html --log log.html tests
Which version of RobotFramework are you using? The Parallel library was removed in 2.5 (see this ticket, though there may be distant plans of reintroducing it).
I tried to reproduce your issue using this file with RF version 2.8, but there are several compatibility problems, as expected.
Are you sure that the library has been loaded properly? When it fails, in addition to the error, you will also get a message telling you that the keywords are unavailable.
I am new to robot framework and wanted to see if i can run test cases without RIDE. I want to create test suite and run test cases sequentially without using RIDE. I went through documentation but could not understand it.
Ex: Test Suite
Test Case 1
Test Case 2
Test Case 3
i would like to put my references to all my resource files to test suite and run all test cases. I can do this using RIDE but wanted to know if i can do this without using it. Do i need to create batch file to do this or any other method to run? Any example will help me. Thank you for advance.
When you install robot, you also installed a program called robot (or pybot in older versions), which is the official robot test runner.
If you have a test suite named "my_tests.robot", you can open up a command prompt (bash on *nix, powershell or command.exe on windows) and type the following command (assuming that robot is in your PATH environment variable, which it probably is):
$ robot my_tests.robot
If you have a collection of suites in a folder, you can give pybot the name of the folder rather than the name of a test file.
To see a list of all robot command line options, use the --help option:
$ robot --help
For more information see Starting test execution in the robot framework users guide.
if you use sublime-text/bracket/Atom/Emacs/vim ... you also have some plug-in :
http://robotframework.org/#tools
Show the path of test suite
exmp: Location of my 'catiav6' test script_
cd C:\Users....\Desktop\catiav6
Run following command from cmd
For single test case:
pybot --test 'Name_of_single_test_case' 'Name_of_test_suite'
For all test cases:
pybot --test * 'Name_of_test_suite'