Test file structure
So far, it has been demonstrated that whitespaces play an important role in configuration files. The test configuration is written in a tabular format with each column having separate elements such as test element. The Robot Framework allows flexibility in specifying the separations among the different columns in a test file as well as supporting different formats for the test files, which you can choose at your discretion. Note that depending upon the file extension; a suitable parser is selected during runtime. Some of the supported formats are as follows:
HTML
TSV
Plaintext
Piped text
RestructuredText
HTML format
In an HTML format, the HTML is read, which comprises of different tables for different portions of the test configuration. For each table, the first heading element is read and based on this information; the rest of the table is understood. A word of caution! Any data that is outside the recognized table is discarded. You can understand this better with the help...
