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1.6. Additional settings in Test Case table

Goal

  • Tag one of your test case with ubuntu and tag the other one with centos tags.
  • Write short documentation for both test cases.

Solution

Hints

You can tag test cases using [Tags] setting in Test Case table.

You can write documentation using [Documentation] setting in Test Case table.

Click here to learn more about available settings in Test Case table.

Solution: tests/01-greetings/01-greetings.robot
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*** Test Cases ***
Original Greetings
    [Tags]    ubuntu
    [Documentation]    This test case checks that the Print Your Name keyword works as expected.
    Print Your Name
    Print Your Name    ${YOUR_NAME}

Greetings Again
    [Tags]    centos
    [Documentation]    This test case proves that we can import variables from resource files.
    Print Your Name    ${ANOTHER_NAME_IN_RESOURCE}

*** Settings ***
Resource    ${CURDIR}${/}resources${/}greetings.resource

*** Variables ***
${YOUR_NAME}    Your Name

Results

Inside the tests folder, execute the following command.

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robot .

You can use the --include parameter to filter test cases by a tag. 

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robot --include centos .
robot --include ubuntu .

You can check the generated log.html file to see how your test cases worked.

Last update: June 22, 2020