Suite parametrization

[maczet]

Is it possible to set parameter per suite using --ordering or another simple way?

tests are organised:

project/
|--tests/
|-SuiteA
|-test 1
|-test 2
|-SuiteB
|-test3
|-test4

I want to set parameters eg. SuiteA IP_ADDRESS=192.168.1.2 and for SuiteB IP_ADDRESS=192.168.2.2

[joonaskuisma]

Hi @maczet !

Unfortunately, that’s not possible, since Pabot handles variables the same way as Robot: you can’t use the same variable name multiple times without the earlier one being overwritten. But why not just create two separate variables, e.g. IP_ADDRESS_SUITE_A and IP_ADDRESS_SUITE_B, and adjust the tests to work with those instead?

[maczet]

My idea was to use pabot with extra parameter to not modify existing tests and set one suite to run on 1st server and second suite on 2nd server. That idea would allow me to have setup for normal run and another setup for parallel run.
So in this case, I will make 2 separate variables and try to set them on Jenkins level.

[maczet]

Is it possibility to create list of servers and easy pass to pabot to iterate one by one by pabot?

[joonaskuisma]

Hi! If you want to run same tests with different servers (or other arguments) with pabot, then --argumentfileN option would be suitable for you.