How to Exclude Test Suites in Robot Framework ? We are using Maven

Question

We just started using Robot Framework using Eclipse and Maven. We want to run only certain test suites(test suites will have testcases).Is there any way to do that?

Answer 1

Here is how you can select which robot tests you want to execute, when using maven.

Maven's pom.xml file looks like this:

....

     
    
    
    
     EXCLUDE 
    ....

....

  
      
            org.robotframework
            robotframework-maven-plugin
            
                
                    ${suite.test}
                
                
                    ${include.tag}
                
                
                    ${exclude1.tag}
                    ${exclude2.tag}
                    ${exclude3.tag}
                
                .....
             
             ....
        
        .....
    
    .....
   

Without command line options, all tests suites are executed, except the ones tagged with EXCLUDE:

mvn robotframework:run

Command line options can be added to fine tune which testsuites are executed. This command only executes the test suite named PerformanceSuite

mvn robotframework:run -Dsuite.test=PerformanceSuite

This command executes all test suites except the ones tagged with EXCLUDE (default behavior) and the ones tagged with "DEMO" or "SAMPLE"

mvn robotframework:run  -Dexclude1.tag=DEMO -Dexclude2.tag=SAMPLE

This command runs only tests suites tagged with "SERVER" but excludes the ones taged with SAMPLE:

 mvn robotframework:run  -Dinclude.tag=SERVER -Dexclude1.tag=SAMPLE

Remember that tags are (recursively) inherited, in the current test-suite from the parent test suite.