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Robot Framework unit tests

Introduction

Robot Framework's unit tests are implemented using Python's unittest module, and they all are in subdirectories of this directory. These tests are executed automatically when all acceptance tests are executed, and how to run unit tests manually is explained below.

Most of the Robot Framework's features are tested with acceptance test using the framework itself. Some of those tests would normally be better implemented as unit tests, but we want to push the framework to its limits (and eat our own dog food). A consequence to this is that some features are not unit tested at all.

License and copyright

All content in the utest directory is under the following copyright:

Copyright 2008-2015 Nokia Networks
Copyright 2016-     Robot Framework Foundation

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Running unit tests

All unit tests can be run with script run.py. To get more information run python run.py --help. It can be executed with Python, Jython and IronPython to verify interoperability with all supported interpreters.

Unit test files should always start with prefix test_. This is the mechanism the unit tests are found by the run.py script.

To run only certain unit tests you need to set the Robot Framework's src folder to PYTHONPATH and run the test like python path/test_xxx.py. There are also some unit tests that need some other modules i.e. libraries used also in acceptance tests. The full list of paths needed to run all the unit tests can be found from the beginning of the run.py file. Often it is just easier to run all the unit tests.