re-run failed as soon as it fails

[martino turturiello]

Hi all,

I know there is already a way to re-run failed test at the end of the suite execution(Issue 1615: Support merging re-run results with Rebot),

but I would like to re-run the failed test just ofter the failure is detected.

The reason behind this is that we have a huge setup to execute before run test suites and re-run the failed tests at the end implies to re-run setup as well, which is quite expensive.

Any help?

Thanks to all the community for the great job you are doing with RobotFramework!

[Laurent Bristiel]

Hi,

I have the same situation.
For most of the unstable tests I am happy with the re-reun-failed-tests.
But for some tests like you, I include the re-run mechanism in the test itself.
To do so, I kind of transform the whole test (setup/teardown excluded) into a single keyword and call that with my own keyword that does several tries.
This is my "retry keyword":

Run_keyword_n_times_and_stop_if_success
    [Arguments]  ${keyword}  ${number_tries}
    :FOR  ${index}  IN RANGE  ${number_tries}
    \  ${result}  ${error_message} =  Run Keyword And Ignore Error  ${keyword}
    \  Pass Execution If  '${result}' == 'PASS'  keyword execution was successful
    # if ends up here, then the previous tries were failures
    Fail  ${error_message}

Note that there is also the "run keyword until succeeds" but it is "time-managed", whereas mine is "tries-managed"

HTH,
Laurent

[martino turturiello]

There is any way to to this buy using the "listener" or any other way?

We really would like to add this as framework feature rather then declare inside a test case.

Thanks for you help,

Martino

[martino turturiello]

Any one on this?

Cheer!