how to share ${variables} between two test or how to set ${variables} in "resource" evaluating keyword in order to share between two test?

[Andrea Bisello]

Hi

reading http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#variable-priorities-and-scopes i understand that i can use resource.robot to share variables, but i need to create a variable evaluating a keyword. if i try to do this in variables table, variables value is the keyword name, not the keyword returned value.

i try to explain myself better.

my testsuite has some test that need to share information between those. For example, my website permits to create user , so,  testing my website, i need to share the same ID in order to CREATE, LOCATE and DELETE the same created user.

i want to split CREATE  , LOCATE and DELETE in three test case

In my case, the ID is generated by datetime

${id}= Get Current Date    result_format=%d-%m-%Y-%H:%M

*** test cases

| Create user

|    |   Input Text    |  myLocator    | ${id}

| User should be created

|    |    Page Should Contains    |    ${id}

| Delete Created User

|    |       

how to create ${id} and share between test?

i cannot use resource file becasue if i put

${id}= Get Current Date    result_format=%d-%m-%Y-%H:%M

in *** variables *** area,  Get Current Date    result_format=%d-%m-%Y-%H:%M will be considered as a String

i can put

${id}= Get Current Date    result_format=%d-%m-%Y-%H:%M

at the first phase of the first test, but the other test will now view ${id}

some advice?

thanks

[Andrea Bisello]

using http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#using-set-test-suite-global-variable-keywords i make a workaround

i created a fake test that generate the ID and assign it to the Suite scope

* Test Cases

Prepare Variables

    ${d}=    Get DateTime Id

    Set Suite Variable ${d}

then when i need it in a test i obtain variables from the scope

${username} = Get Variable Value ${d}

this workaround works, but i would not to use a test in order to prepare variable.

[Hélio Guilherme]

You should do that in a Suite Setup section, that way all tests will have the initial setup.

http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#suite-setup-and-teardown

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[Kevin O.]

If you define your variables in a variable file, the variables can be defined at runtime in Python or Java.

An simple variable file, defining the variable id in the same way you are, would look like this:

import datetime

id = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%d-%m-%Y-%H:%M")

See http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#variable-files

[Andrea Bisello]

Thanks Helio,

i know this, but how should i store variables?

if i do :

*** Settings ***

Suite Setup prepare data

* Keywords

Prepara le variabili

    ${id}=    Get DateTime Id

    Open Browser     ${LOGIN URL}    ${BROWSER}

then when test needs to use ${id} , this are not avaiable.

sure, i can Set Suite Variable , but i think this is a little tricky. Maybe this is the right way.