I am currently connecting SQL server to robot framework, so i can read my data table name in robot. and I want to use for loop to check table name, somehow, ":FOR" loop keyword cannot found, but I have installed libraries such as operating-system, collections, string, built-in, diff-library and so on. anyone can help me why i cannot use for loop? any help will be appreciated.
The robot framework users guide has a whole section on how to use the for loop. From that section:
The syntax starts with :FOR, where colon is required to separate the
syntax from normal keywords. The next cell contains the loop variable,
the subsequent cell must have IN, and the final cells contain values
over which to iterate. These values can contain variables, including
list variables.
Here's an example from the user's guide, reformatted to use pipes (for clarity):
*** Test Cases ***
| Example 1
| | :FOR | ${animal} | IN | cat | dog
| | | log | ${animal}
| | | log | 2nd keyword
| | Log | Outside loop
Maybe you are not escaping indented cells; as the Tip in the documentation says. Try writing loops like this:
:FOR ${index} IN RANGE ${start} ${stop}
\ log to console index: ${index}
\ Call a Keyword
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I would like to add the vertical pipes so that I can have my data table down there under "Examples" feature in Specflow. Anyone to give me any tip so I can go through it?. My scenario outline looks like:
#mytag
Scenario Outline: Check Noun Words
Given Access the AnalyzeStateless URL
And language code
And content of <Sentence>
And the Expected KeyWord <Expected KeyWords>
And the Expected Family ID <Expected FID>
And the index <Index>
When return the XML response
Then the keyword should contain <FamilyID>
Examples:
| Index | Sentence | Expected KeyWords | Expected FID |
| 1 | I need a personal credit card | personal | 92289 |
The "Examples" feature has been manually entered in above case. I have a thousand of rows on an excel file, any appropriate way to get all of the values in one go?
Have you looked at Specflow.Excel which allows you to keep your examples in your excel files?
I am new to BDD specflow.
I have to write a scenario wherein after I capture an image, i have to select a value for each defined attribute for that image from a selection list
For Eg:
|Body Part |Location |Group |
| Leg | Left | Skin |
| Hand | Upper | Burn |
| Arm | Right | Ulcer |
I need a way in which i can select a different value for each attribute, every time.
Thanks in advance!
You are looking for Scenario Outline;
Scenario outlines allow us to more concisely express these examples through the use of a template with placeholders, using Scenario Outline, Examples with tables and < > delimited parameters.
Specflow takes each line in the Example table and create from the line a scenario to execute.
I have a feature that logs into a trading system and keys a number of trades. Theres a lot of reusable steps at the beginning of each trade (initial trade set up) But each trade has different arguments.
Here is an example
Scenario: Trade 1
Given I have selected my test data: "20003"
And I have connected to VMS with the following details:
| Field | Value |
| Username | user |
| Password | password |
| Session | myServer |
When I run the DCL command to set my privileges to full
Then I expect to see the following:
| Pass Criteria | Timeout |
| Privileges Set | 00:00:30 |
When I ICE to the test account: "System Test"
Then I expect to be ICED see the following:
| Pass Criteria | Timeout |
| "ICED to System Test" | "00:00:10" |
When I run a dcl to delete the company: "Test_Company"
Then I expect to see a confirmation that company: "Test_Company" has been deleted or doesnt exist
So within those steps the 2 things that could change is the "Given" argument so the test data ID and also the Test company at the end.
What I wanted was some way to run a background step so that its being able to know what parameters to enter. So if it was Trade 1 for example it would enter 20003, if it was Trade 2 enter 20004 etc.
Can I do this? I was thinking using the "Example" table that Scenario Outline uses. Or is there a better way to do this? I dont want these repeatable steps in all of my scenarios as it takes up lots of room and doesnt look too readable.
So I did some searching and couldn't find a solution that didn't require a lot of coding so I made this up:
this is what the background looks like
Background:
Given I have selected my test data:
| Scenario | ID |
| DirectCredit_GBP | 20003 |
| Cheque_GBP | 20004 |
| ForeignCheque_GBP | 20005 |
And in order to find which row it should use the method behind it uses ScenarioContext. Here is the method:
[Given(#"I have selected my test data:")]
[When(#"I have selected my test data:")]
public static void setTestDataID(Table data)
{
string scenario = ScenarioContext.Current.ScenarioInfo.Title;
string testDataId = data.ReadTable("Scenario", scenario, "ID"));
TestDriver.LoadTestData(testDataId);
}
What the method does is search the table for the scenario name (using an extension method I wrote) and get the ID, once its got the ID it passes it into my TestDriver method.
It seems to work fine and keeps the test readable.
I am testing out F# and using NUnit as my test library; I have discovered the use of double-back ticks to allow arbitrary method naming to make my method names even more human readable.
I was wondering, whether rightly or wrongly, if it is possible to parameterise the method names when using NUnit's TestCaseAttribute to change the method name, for example:
[<TestCase("1", 1)>]
[<TestCase("2", 2)>]
let ``Should return #expected when "#input" is supplied`` input expected =
...
This might not be exactly what you need, but if you want to go beyond unit testing, then TickSpec (a BDD framework using F#) has a nice feature where it lets you write parameterized scenarios based on back-tick methods that contain regular expressions as place holders.
For example, in Phil Trelford's blog post, he uses this to define tic-tac-toe scenario:
Scenario: Winning positions
Given a board layout:
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| O | O | X |
| O | | |
| X | | X |
When a player marks X at <row> <col>
Then X wins
Examples:
| row | col |
| middle | right |
| middle | middle |
| bottom | middle |
The method that implements the When clause of the scenario is defined in F# using something like this:
let [<When>] ``a player marks (X|O) at (top|middle|bottom) (left|middle|right)``
(mark:string,row:Row,col:Col) =
let y = int row
let x = int col
Debug.Assert(System.String.IsNullOrEmpty(layout.[y].[x]))
layout.[y].[x] <- mark
This is a neat thing, but it might be an overkill if you just want to write a simple parameterized unit test - BDD is useful if you want to produce human readable specifications of different scenarios (and there are actually other people reading them!)
This is not possible.
The basic issue is that for every input and expected you need to create a unique function. You would then need to pick the correct function to call (or your stacktrace wouldn't make sense). As a result this is not possible.
Having said that if you hacked around with something like eval (which must exist inside fsi), it might be possible to create something like this, but it would be very slow.
In a FitNesse query table, is it possible to load a symbol with the returned results?
example of what I would like to do:
|Query: GetPlayers|
| name | age | ID |
| jones | 36 | $ID1= |
| smith | 27 | $ID2= |
Or alternatively, just have one $ID symbol which is loaded with a collection.
Is this possible?
Unfortunately I believe this is still an unresolved issue in FitNesse. There is a PivotalTracker entry for it, that no one has take one yet: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/1893214. I've looked at it, but haven't been able to solve it myself.
We currently work around this by having a driver that can do equivalent query. Then we get the value back from the query. It is much more cumbersome, but works for now.
I completely agree that this should be possible. But as far as I know, it has not been fixed yet.
Maybe I don't understand your problem, but this is working fine for me:
|Query: whatever|whatever_param |
|key |value |
|a_key |$symbol= |
|check |$symbol|a_value|
I use Cslim, and the method whatever.query() returns a list of maps that correspond to the keys (the key a_key have the value a_value for this exemple)