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Snooz82 / robotframework-datadriver

Library to provide Data-Driven testing with CSV tables to Robot Framework
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how to implement the data driver with different configuration #32

Closed davesliu closed 4 years ago

davesliu commented 4 years ago

Hello.

I have a testObjectA.robot file with reading 1000 different parameters in a excel file, and it works very well with the robotframework-datadriver module by generate 1000 test cases. Currently, we have to test the testObjectA.robot with 10 different pre-configuration. The way that we can do is add one column in the excel file for the 10 different configuration and copy & paste the 1000 parameters 10 times in excel file to generate 1000*10 test cases.

This way seems very low efficient and not easy to maintenance. Is any any better way than copy&past test parameters for the 10 different pre-configuration?

Thanks

Snooz82 commented 4 years ago

Hi, you could use pabot to execute the same test suite 10 times and define that variable with argument files. But i am not that pro with pabot.

You could also write a custom DataReader that fetches that data from different table sheets/files. like multiplying each line with these 10 variants.

davesliu commented 4 years ago

@Snooz82 Thanks for your comment. I use the first way as you suggested and it works.