Robot Framework test reporting

If you are not using Robot Framework view the Python docs for information about integrating with a lower level library.

Installation

The Tesults Python library and Tesults Listener for Robot Framework are hosted on PyPI and are compatible with Python 2 and 3.

First install tesults:

pip install tesults

Then install robot-tesults, which depends on the tesults package above:

pip install robot-tesults

Configuration

targetRequired

A target token is required to push results to Tesults. If this arg is not provided robot-tesults does not attempt upload, effectively disabling it. Get your target token from the configuration menu in the Tesults web interface.

Inline method

robot --listener TesultsListener:target=eyJ0eXAiOiJ... robot.tests

In this case, the target token is supplied directly or inline in the commandline args. This is the simplest approach.

Notice that Robot Framework expects listener args to be provided separated by colons (:). That is:

robot --listener TesultsListener:arg1:arg2:arg3 robot.tests

Key method

robot --listener TesultsListener:target=target1:config=configFile robot.tests

In this case, robot-tesults will automatically look up the value of the token based on the property provided from a configuration file.

Here is the corresponding tesults.config file:

[tesults]
target1 = eyJ0eXAiOiJ...
target2 = ...
target3 = ...
target4 = ...

Or something more descriptive about the targets:

[tesults]
web-qa-env = eyJ0eXAiOiJ...
web-staging-env = ...
web-prod-env = ...

ios-qa-env = eyJ0eXAiOiK...
ios-staging-env = ...
ios-prod-env = ...

android-qa-env = eyJ0eXAiOiL...
android-staging-env = ...
android-prod-env = ...
configOptional

Provide the path, including the file name to a .config file. Args can be provided in a config file instead of the robot command.

robot --listener TesultsListener:config=/path-to-config/tesults.config

Basic configuration complete

At this point robot-tesults will push results to Tesults when you run your robot command with TesultsListener. The robot-tesults plugin requires the target arg be supplied to indicate which target to use as described above.

robot --listener TesultsListener:target=token robot.tests

Files generated by tests

Provide the top-level directory where files generated during testing are saved for the running test run. Files, including logs, screen captures and other artifacts will be automatically uploaded.

robot --listener TesultsListener:files=/Users/admin/Desktop/temporary

This is one area where robot-tesults is opinionated and requires that files generated during a test run be saved locally temporarily within a specific directory structure.

Store all files in a temporary directory as your tests run. After Tesults upload is complete, delete the temporary directory or just have it overwritten on the next test run.

Also be aware that if providing build files, the build suite is always set to [build] and files are expected to be located in temporary/[build]/buildname

Caution: If uploading files the time taken to upload is entirely dependent on your network speed. Typical office upload speeds of 100 - 1000 Mbps should allow upload of even hundreds of files quite quickly, just a few seconds, but if you have slower access it may take hours. We recommend uploading a reasonable number of files for each test case. The upload method blocks at the end of a test run while uploading test results and files. When starting out test without files first to ensure everything is setup correctly.

During a test run, save test generated files such as logs and screenshots to a local temporary directory. At the end of the test run all files will automatically be saved to Tesults as long as you save files in the directory structure below. Omit test suite folders if not using test suites.
  • expanded temporary folder
    • expanded Test Suite A
      • expanded Test 1
        • test.log
        • screenshot.png
      • expanded Test 2
        • test.log
        • screenshot.png
    • expanded Test Suite B
      • expanded Test 3
        • metrics.csv
        • error.log
      • expanded Test 4
        • test.log

Build

build-nameOptional

Use this to report a build version or name for reporting purposes.

robot --listener TesultsListener:build-name=1.0.0

build-resultOptional

Use this to report the build result, must be one of [pass, fail, unknown].

robot --listener TesultsListener:build-result=pass

build-descOptional

Use this to report a build description for reporting purposes.

robot --listener TesultsListener:build-desc='added new feature'

build-reasonOptional

Use this to report a build failure reason.

robot --listener TesultsListener:build-reason='build error line 201 somefile.py'

Result Interpretation

Result interpretation is not currently supported by this integration. If you are interested in support please contact help@tesults.com.

Consolidating parallel test runs

If you execute multiple test runs in parallel or serially for the same build or release and results are submitted to Tesults within each run, separately, you will find that multiple test runs are generated on Tesults. This is because the default behavior on Tesults is to treat each results submission as a separate test run. This behavior can be changed from the configuration menu. Click 'Results Consolidation By Build' from the Configure Project menu to enable and disable consolidation by target. Enabling consolidation will mean that multiple test runs submitted with the same build name will be consolidated into a single test run.

Dynamically created test cases

If you dynamically create test cases, such as test cases with variable values, we recommend that the test suite and test case names themselves be static. Provide the variable data information in the test case description or other custom fields but try to keep the test suite and test name static. If you change your test suite or test name on every test run you will not benefit from a range of features Tesults has to offer including test case failure assignment and historical results analysis. You need not make your tests any less dynamic, variable values can still be reported within test case details.

Proxy servers

Does your corporate/office network run behind a proxy server? Contact us and we will supply you with a custom API Library for this case. Without this results will fail to upload to Tesults.

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