Execution Setup and Teardown with using pabot?

[sami.sa...@q-factory.fi]

Hi,

I have challenge to solve: I am using pabot with 4 processes at the moment. I would like to start SUT logging (collecting daily log is not the option, too big) in the beginning of execution and stop logging, when last bot is ready. My understanding is, that Robot is supporting Suite Setup and Teardown at the moment. Is there anyway to have "Execution Setup and Teardown" functionality?

Could you have some good idea(s) to implement SUT logging with pabot? 

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Sami

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

Interesting question. The feature you are requesting is not part of the Robot Framework, because it doesn't see that it's executed by pabot and Robot Framework does not see other Robot Framework processes are also running. Instead the feature belongs to the pabot, because it has the knowledge about the full execution.

The good news is that, starting the logging is possible by Run Only Once [1] keyword. The bad news is that stopping the logging is not possible out of the box, but there are workarounds. Example you could move the logging stopping outside of the test execution or you could implement a feature for pabot that is a counterpart for the Run Only Once keyword. Also I am sure that many other ways also exist.

-Tatu
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[1] https://cdn.rawgit.com/mkorpela/pabot/master/PabotLib.html#Run%20Only%20Once

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[Aleh Barysevich]

I had similar problem some time ago.  I wanted to start process before tests and kill process after test execution and to be able to run multiple suits simultaneously. I ended up increasing counter in Suite Setup and decreasing in Suite Teardown and running/killing process based on counter.

Aleh Barysevich

[sami.sa...@q-factory.fi]

Thanks Tatu and Aleh,

Actually this Aleh idea is interesting, Suite counter idea is maybe good one. Run Only Once could be used in Setup but sometimes we are executing without pabot, then it's not valid solution.

Thanks for your ideas!

-Sami

tiistai 25. syyskuuta 2018 11.03.35 UTC+3 Aleh Barysevich kirjoitti:

I had similar problem some time ago.  I wanted to start process before tests and kill process after test execution and to be able to run multiple suits simultaneously. I ended up increasing counter in Suite Setup and decreasing in Suite Teardown and running/killing process based on counter.

On Tue, 25 Sep 2018, at 08:46, Tatu Aalto wrote:

Ugh

Interesting question. The feature you are requesting is not part of the Robot Framework, because it doesn't see that it's executed by pabot and Robot Framework does not see other Robot Framework processes are also running. Instead the feature belongs to the pabot, because it has the knowledge about the full execution.

The good news is that, starting the logging is possible by Run Only Once [1] keyword. The bad news is that stopping the logging is not possible out of the box, but there are workarounds. Example you could move the logging stopping outside of the test execution or you could implement a feature for pabot that is a counterpart for the Run Only Once keyword. Also I am sure that many other ways also exist.

-Tatu

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[1] https://cdn.rawgit.com/mkorpela/pabot/master/PabotLib.html#Run%20Only%20Once

On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, 10:14 , <sami.sa...@q-factory.fi> wrote:

Hi,

I have challenge to solve: I am using pabot with 4 processes at the moment. I would like to start SUT logging (collecting daily log is not the option, too big) in the beginning of execution and stop logging, when last bot is ready. My understanding is, that Robot is supporting Suite Setup and Teardown at the moment. Is there anyway to have "Execution Setup and Teardown" functionality?

Could you have some good idea(s) to implement SUT logging with pabot? 

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Sami

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