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pawelr
pawelr

Reputation: 41

How can I access all test in suite in robot framework

Is there any possible way to access list of all test execution in current test suite during it's execution. In my case I have one scripts with 20 test cases. Each of them has some tags. When starting Robot I can ask it to execute only test with specific tags. I'd like to know which test were chosen by Robot form my script. I know that such info is provided to listener. Can I access it for example in suite setup during execution?

Thanks Pawel R.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1657

Answers (3)

Bence Kaulics
Bence Kaulics

Reputation: 7271

Today, you can create a small library that will act as a listener as well that can do a runtime check which tests have been selected. I am using Robot Framework 3.1.2 here.

It basically needs two things

  1. A start_suite method from the listener API. This method will be invoked at the start of every suite or until it returns an explicit False. When invoked a parameter called attributes will be passed to it. This parameter is a dictionary, that has the following key/value pair, "tests: Names of the tests this suite has as a list. Does not include tests of the possible child suites.".
  2. A keyword that will log all test names and could be used from Suite Setup.

lib.py

from robot.api import logger

class lib(object):
    ROBOT_LIBRARY_SCOPE = 'TEST SUITE'    # define library scope
    ROBOT_LISTENER_API_VERSION = 2        # select listener API
    ROBOT_LIBRARY_VERSION = 0.1
    
    def __init__(self):
        self.ROBOT_LIBRARY_LISTENER = self    # tell the framework that it will be a listener library
        self.attributes = None

    def _start_suite(self, name, attributes):
        self.attributes = attributes
        
    def log_suite_test_names(self):
        for test in self.attributes['tests']:
            logger.info(test)
        

globals()[__name__] = lib

test.robot

*** Settings ***
Library    lib
Suite Setup    log suite test names

*** Test Cases ***
Test 1
    [Tags]    A
    No Operation
    
Test 11
    [Tags]    A    B
    No Operation
    
Test 111
    [Tags]    A    B    C
    No Operation
    
Test 1111
    [Tags]    A    B    C    D
    No Operation

Results when launched like: robot --pythonpath . --include C test.robot

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Upvotes: 1

jim
jim

Reputation: 906

If usage of RF itself was not obligatory and the OS was *nix-related I would go for 

grep -E -B 1 "( )(tag|tag2)( |$)" test.robot

where:

-E initiates regex syntax of grep,

-B 1 prints out one preceding string relative to matched (which gives us Test Case names).

You could also add |grep -v Tags to only keep the strings that contain Case names.

If you have some other stuff between a [Tags] section and a Case name just increase -B %index% a little and put more stuff after |grep -v.

Upvotes: 0

PsyFer
PsyFer

Reputation: 33

You could always try doing a dry run using 

--dryrun

This should be nice and quick to see what is run when you look at the report.html

http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#dry-run

Upvotes: 0

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