This is an experimental package
for wrapping Robot Framework test suites into Python unittest suites
to make it possible to run Robot Framework tests
as plone.testing_'s layered test suites:
.. code:: python
import unittest
from plone.testing import layered
from robotsuite import RobotTestSuite
from my_package.testing import ACCEPTANCE_TESTING
def test_suite():
suite = unittest.TestSuite()
suite.addTests([
layered(RobotTestSuite('mysuite.txt'),
layer=ACCEPTANCE_TESTING),
])
return suite
RobotTestSuite splits Robot Framework test suites into separate unittest test cases so that Robot will be run once for every test case in every test suite parsed from the given Robot Framework test suite. Because of that, each Robot will generate a separate test report for each test. Each report will have it's own folder, which are created recursively reflecting the structure of the given test suite.
RobotTestSuite's way of wrapping tests into unittest's test suite is similar to how doctest-module's DocTestSuite does its wrappings. See the documentation of DocTestSuite for possible common parameters (e.g. for how to pass a test suite from a different package).
The main motivation behind this package is to make
Robot Framework support existing test fixtures and test isolation
when testing Plone.
Yet, this should help anyone wanting to use Robot Framework with
zope.testrunner or other Python unittest compatible test runner.
.. _plone.testing: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.testing .. _zope.testrunner: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.testrunner .. _Plone: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Plone
If this works for you, please contribute at: http://github.com/collective/robotsuite/
.. image:: https://github.com/collective/robotsuite/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg?branch=master :target: https://github.com/collective/robotsuite/actions
Robot Framework supports overriding test variables from command-line, which
is not-available when running tests as robotsuite-wrapped with other test
runners. That's why robotsuite supports settings variables as environment
variables so that every ROBOT_-prefixed environment variable will be
mapped into corresponding test variable without the ROBOT_-prefix.
.. note:: Criticality is no-longer supported in Robot Framework >= 4.0 and has been replaced with SKIP status. Robotsuite does not take a stance on SKIP status yet.
Robot Framework supports declaring tests with given tags as non-critical to prevent their failing to fail the complete build on CI. This is supported as keyword argument for RobotTestSuite as follows:
.. code:: python
def test_suite(): suite = unittest.TestSuite() suite.addTests([ layered(RobotTestSuite('mysuite.txt', noncritical=['non-critical-tag']), layer=ACCEPTANCE_TESTING), ]) return suite
zope.testrunner_ supports annotating test suites with levels to avoid
slow test being run unless wanted:
.. code:: python
def test_suite(): suite = unittest.TestSuite() suite.addTests([ layered(RobotTestSuite('mysuite.txt'), layer=ACCEPTANCE_TESTING), ]) suite.level = 10 return suite
You can retry a failed test. This can be useful for flaky robot browser tests. Warning: this may not be good for all types of test. For example any changes that were done in the test until the first failure, may persist.
You can enable retries in two ways:
Set an environment variable ROBOTSUITE_RETRY_COUNT=X.
Override this by passing retry_count=X to a RobotTestSuite call.
The default is zero: no retries. The retry count excludes the original try.
.. code:: python
def test_suite():
suite = unittest.TestSuite()
suite.addTests([
robotsuite.RobotTestSuite('test_example.robot', retry_count=3),
robotsuite.RobotTestSuite('test_variables.robot'),
robotsuite.RobotTestSuite('test_setups', retry_count=2)
])
return suite
When running Robot Framework through robotsuite, its test reports are created
into the current working directory with filenames robot_output.xml,
robot_log.html and robot_report.html. The default behavior is to
override the existing robot_output.xml (and also the other report files
generated from that).
To merge test results from separate test runs into the same test report, set
environment variable ROBOTSUITE_APPEND_OUTPUT_XML=1 to prevent robotsuite
from overriding the existing test results, but to always append to the existing
robot_output.xml.
Set environment variable ROBOTSUITE_LOGLEVEL=ERROR to filter all top level
Test Execution Errors below the given log level (e.g. ERROR) from the merged
test report. This is useful when unnecessary warnings are leaking from the
tested code into Robot Framework logs.
Robot Framework is often used with Selenium2Library_ to write acceptance test using the Selenium-framework. Yet, because those test may be slow to run, one might want sometimes (e.g. on CI) to run everything except the robotsuite wrapped tests, and later only the robotsuite wrapped tests.
This can be achieved for sure, with injecting a custom string into the names
of robotsuite-wrapped tests with ROBOTSUITE_PREFIX-environment variable
and then filter the test with that string.
E.g. run everything except the robotsuite wrapped tests with:
.. code:: bash
$ ROBOTSUITE_PREFIX=ROBOTSUITE bin/test --all -t !ROBOTSUITE
and the other way around with:
.. code:: bash
$ ROBOTSUITE_PREFIX=ROBOTSUITE bin/test --all -t ROBOTSUITE
.. _Selenium2Library: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/robotframework-selenium2library
Sometime it could be useful to re-use acceptance test from some upstream
package to test your slightly tailored package (e.g. with a custom theme).
This can be done with by defining the test lookup location with
package-keyword argment for RobotTestSuite:
.. code:: python
def test_suite():
suite = unittest.TestSuite()
suite.addTests([
layered(leveled(
robotsuite.RobotTestSuite('robot',
package='Products.CMFPlone.tests'),
), layer=PLONE_APP_MOSAIC_NO_PAC_ROBOT),
])
return suite
Plone issue 3537 <https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/issues/3537>_. [maurits]Add optional support for retrying a failed test.
Set environment variable ROBOTSUITE_RETRY_COUNT=X.
Or override this by passing retry_count=X to a RobotTestSuite call.
Default is zero: no retries. The retry count excludes the original try.
[maurits]
Add support for Robot Framework 3.2b1 [datakurre]
Drop robotframework-python3 requirement, robotframework itself is already python 3 compatible. [gforcada]
Do not support python 2.6 anymore [gforcada]
Remove unittest2 references [gforcada]
robot_output.xml, but always
just merge new test data into it. robot_output.xml can be reseted by
deleting it manually between tests.zope.testrunner_).FAQs
Robot Framework test suite for Python unittest framework
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