Robot Framework Test Flow

Question

It's possible to require an execution of a specific test case before the execution of the current test case?

My test cases are organized in several folder and it's possible that a test require the execution of the another test placed in the another folder (see the image below).

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

This is not a good / recommended / possible way to go.

Robot framework doesn't support it, and for a good reason. It is not sustainable to create such dependencies in the long term (or even short term).

Tests shouldn't depend on other tests. Mainly not on other tests from a different suite. What if the other suite was not run?

You can work around the issue in two ways:

You can define a file called

__init__.robot 

In a directory. That suite setup and suite teardown in the file would run before anything in the underlying folders.

You can also turn the other test into a keyword so:

Test C simply calls a keyword that makes Test C run and also updates a global variable (Test_C_already_runs)

Test B would use then issue

run if  '${Test_C_already_runs}'=='true'  Test_C_Keyword

You would have to set a value to Test_C_already_runs before that anyway (as part of variable import, or as part of some suite_setup) to prevent variable not found error.