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Parallelized Robot Framework Example

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Below is a simple workflow for executing a Robot Framework test on three browsers running in parallel instead of sequentially. You can paste this directly into the YAML of an existing or new test, just make sure to update the name and namespace for your environment if needed.

  • The spec.content property defines the location of the GitHub project
  • the spec.steps property defines a single step that runs the test and uploads the created reports.
  • The spec.steps.[0].parallel property defines the robot steps to run in parallel
  • The spec.steps.[0].parallel.matrix defines a browser property with values for each browser
  • The spec.steps.[0].parallel.steps.[0].shell property runs the robot test for a specific browser
Distributed Robot Framework Workflow
kind: TestWorkflow
apiVersion: testworkflows.testkube.io/v1
metadata:
  name: parallel-robot
  namespace: testkube
spec:
  content:
    git:
      uri: https://github.com/olensmar/robot-framework-test.git
  steps:
    - name: Run tests
      parallel:
        matrix:
          browser:
            - firefox
            - chromium
            - webkit
        transfer:
          - from: /data/repo
        container:
          image: marketsquare/robotframework-browser:latest
        steps:
          - shell: robot --variable BROWSER:{{ matrix.browser }} --outputdir /data/output-{{matrix.browser}}
              --reporttitle "{{ matrix.browser }} Report" /data/repo/testkube_io.robot
            artifacts:
              paths:
                - /data/output-{{matrix.browser}}/*

After execution, you can see the output from the test executions under the executions panel tabs:

The log output from the Robot Framework execution:

Robot Framework Log Output