How to run specific test cases from a test suite using Robot Framework
I am new to Robot and am learning to write logic and test cases.
I have a test suite, "mytestsuite.robot", which has a lot of test cases. I have a couple of errors in one of my test cases.
How do I run just that specific test case since I don't want to run the whole test suite again?
File mytestsuite.robot
testcase1
....
....
testcase2
....
....
testcase3
....
....
testcase4
....
....
Say test case 3 failed, and I want to just rerun test case 3.
I tried to use:
pybot mytestsuite.robot -t testcase3
But I get an error.
Answer
You want to use the option -t or --test, but the option goes before the name of the file rather than after. This should work:
robot -t testcase1 mytestsuite.robot
The order of the command line arguments is covered in the user guide under a section titled Starting test execution, and is also available at the command line with the --help option (e.g. pybot --help)
Be aware that the specific file name is optional. You could use only: robot -t testcase1 .
Where "." means look for all files that contains the specified test. Robot will do the hard work of finding the specific test.
You can use also willcard as * in the begining or finish of the test name, to match easily a test or to run multiple tests.
robot -t "testcase1*" .
Will match all tests that begin with "testcase1" in current folder.
The user guide has a section titled Selecting test cases which covers this subject.