How to make use of a Data Driven script in Robot Framework

[eilser]

Hi,

I would like to seek some help on "How to create/write a .csv files
that contains test data that will be used in the scripts. What is the
structure of the file."

[Pekka Klärck]

2010/6/23 eilser <reslie...@gmail.com>:

>
> I would like to seek some help on "How to create/write a .csv files
> that contains test data that will be used in the scripts. What is the
> structure of the file."

Does it necessarily need to be a separate CSV file? Robot Framework
supports data-driven style directly as explained in the User Guide
[1]. External files might be a good idea if you already have the data
in these files for some other purpose. In that case I would use
variables files [2] to parse the data and make it available in test
cases.

[1] http://robotframework.googlecode.com/svn/tags/robotframework-2.5/doc/userguide/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#different-test-case-styles
[2] http://robotframework.googlecode.com/svn/tags/robotframework-2.5/doc/userguide/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#variable-files

Cheers,
.peke
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[SMERSH009X]

There is a really easy approach outlined in http://www.virtuousprogrammer.com/?p=264  check out the section  called Data Driven Tests.  It helped get me up and running pretty quickly.

[Gaurav Deore]

Yes, Use of external file in automation is basic need. To get the test data from CSV or Excel file is easy way while doing testing so I wish with Robot framework automation it should have supported. 

This is another way to use Robot Framework more effectively in Web automation testing.

Thanks,

Gaurav Deore.

[Prashant]

Have a look at  https://github.com/ThomasJaspers/Generic-Testdata-Framework/wiki

[Chris Prinos]

If you use restructuredtext format for the robot source files, you can used the 'csv-table' directive to include external csv files.

chris