How can i run robot test cases without ride using test suite

Question

I am new to robot framework and wanted to see if i can run test cases without RIDE. I want to create test suite and run test cases sequentially without using RIDE. I went through documentation but could not understand it.

Ex: Test Suite

Test Case 1 Test Case 2 Test Case 3

i would like to put my references to all my resource files to test suite and run all test cases. I can do this using RIDE but wanted to know if i can do this without using it. Do i need to create batch file to do this or any other method to run? Any example will help me. Thank you for advance.

Solution

When you install robot, you also installed a program called robot (or pybot in older versions), which is the official robot test runner.

If you have a test suite named "my_tests.robot", you can open up a command prompt (bash on *nix, powershell or command.exe on windows) and type the following command (assuming that robot is in your PATH environment variable, which it probably is):

$ robot my_tests.robot

If you have a collection of suites in a folder, you can give pybot the name of the folder rather than the name of a test file.

To see a list of all robot command line options, use the --help option:

$ robot --help

For more information see Starting test execution in the robot framework users guide.

Comments

[Russell Smith]

@JeevanChaitanya: pybot was the name of the test runner script prior to robot version 3. It is now called robot. They both perform the same function.

[Jeevan Chaitanya]

Thank you for the replay. Understood.