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1.7. "Global" Suite Setup and Suite Teardown

Goal

  • Define a suite setup, which executes before the first test case. The suite setup should log the following: Our Robot awesomeness begins!.
  • Define a suite teardown, which will execute after the last test case. The suite teardown should log the following: The end of the awesomeness!.

Solution

Hints

You can set Suite Setup and Suite Teardown in *** Settings *** table. If you have a test suite which was created from a directory (a folder containing suite file(s) and folder(s)), you can define setup and teardown for that suite with using an initialization file.

Click here to learn more about initialization files.

Solution: tests/__init__.robot
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*** Settings ***
Suite Setup       Global Suite Setup
Suite Teardown    Global Suite Teardown

*** Keywords ***
Global Suite Setup
    Log    Our Robot awesomeness begins!

Global Suite Teardown
    Log    The end of the awesomeness!

Results

Inside the tests folder, execute the following command.

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robot .

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

Last update: June 22, 2020