Excluding tests by tags using Maven on the command line

[Esben Rugbjerg]

Hi,

Can anyone give me and example on how to control which tests that is executed when running RF through Maven ? As far as I can see I have to use the excludes_cli and includes_cli, but I can't make them work.

I have tried 

mvn integration-test -Dexcludes_cli="givenWhenThen" -Dincludes_cli="testInDev"

Any help will be very much appreciated

Thanks

Esben

[Jussi Malinen]

Hi!

The option name from command line is only excludes and includes. In maven docs these command line names are known as "expressions". (See the docs and you will se that the expression for excludes_cli is ${excludes})

Maybe the documentation could be improved here by adding a few examples?

So just try mvn integration-test -Dexcludes=foo -Dincludes=bar

Cheers,
Jussi

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[dani...@gmail.com]

I tried this command, but it did not work.  Does anyone know the right command to use for excluding and including test(s)?

[Jussi Malinen]

What are you trying to do?

Note that those includes and excludes include and exclude based on test tags. (As mentioned in the user guide: http://robotframework.googlecode.com/hg/doc/userguide/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#by-tag-names)

If you instead want to select tests based on their name, you should use tests and suites settings. As in

-Dtests=MyTestName,AnotherTest

See the user guide and pybot --help for more information on the options.

- Jussi

[dani...@gmail.com]

I am able to exclude test(s) by modifying pom.xml in Maven.  Now, I am trying to include and exclude tests via command line.


Thank you for replying.

[Stefan Lecho]

If you define your test case like this
*** Test Case ***
My Test Case

[Tags] TheTagOfMyTestCase

You can use the following command line to include the above test case:
mvn clean install -Dincludes=TheTagOfMyTestCase