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Robot Framework Test Automation

You're reading from   Robot Framework Test Automation Create test suites and automated acceptance tests from scratch

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Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783283033
Length 98 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Test configuration files


As mentioned before, the tests are stored in files and are clubbed in folders that act as test suite for the files. A test file can contain different sections, which can optionally be moved into other files dedicated specifically towards the work of that particular section. Thus reducing the length and complexity of the actual test file, which is helpful if the test size is very large.

The test configuration files apart from the actual test files and folders are:

Suite initialization files

A folder in the Robot Framework denotes a test suite for all the files and subfolders contained in it. As there is no way to specify metadata of the test suite except for the folder name, there is a provision for special files that pertain to the folder in which they are placed. As with specifying a directory as a module in Python, initialization files have to be named as __init__ and their extension can be any valid extensions allowed by the Robot Framework. The format of these files...

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