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robotframework Changelog

What's new in robotframework 2.8.6

Dec 27, 2014
  • Most important enhancements:
  • Support for more general merging results with Rebot (#1687).
  • Improved logfiles with collapse all (#1478), new icons (#1808), and elapsed time on header row (#1796).
  • Recommendations for not found variables (#1804) and keywords (#888).
  • Backwards incompatible changes:
  • We have removed the old external tools from the distribution. Issue #1754 lists where the tools have moved.
  • Support for variables in named arguments and kwarg names (#1793) may possibly cause problems in some cases. See the comments here for details.
  • install.py script has been removed (#1753).
  • Acknowledgements:
  • BuiltIn.Log pprint support (#1666).
  • New pattern matching keywords in Collections (#1724).
  • Keyword/variable not found recommendations (#888 and #1804).

New in robotframework 2.0.4 (Jan 14, 2009)

  • Enables easy-to-use tabular syntax for creating test cases in a uniform way.
  • Provides ability to create reusable higher-level keywords from the existing keywords.
  • Provides easy-to-read reports and logs in HTML format.
  • Is platform and application independent.
  • The modular architecture supports creating tests even for applications with several diverse interfaces.
  • Provides a simple library API for creating customized test libraries.
  • Provides a command line interface and XML based outputs for integration into existing build infrastructure (continuous integration systems).
  • Provides support for Selenium for web testing, Java GUI testing, running processes, Telnet, SSH, and so on.
  • Supports creating data-driven test cases.
  • Provides tagging to categorize and select test cases to be executed.
  • Has built-in support for variables, practical particularly for testing in different environments.