When doing acceptance test driven development, the team writes the tests often by first specifying the behaviour, and then supporting that with a table of examples. How that generally works with the Robot Framework, was already described earlier . As executable specification, those automated tests have to be understandable by all stakeholders. By all means, this includes that they should be written in everybody’s mother tounge – and more often than not, this is not English. This currently does not work with the Robot Framework, does it?
With a simple resource file, you can easily work around that issue, until it will be solved with the forthcoming Robot Framework 2.5 .
1*** Settings *** 2 3 4*** Keywords *** 5Gegeben ${keyword} 6 Run Keyword ${keyword} 7 8Sei ${keyword} 9 Run Keyword ${keyword} 10 11Wenn ${keyword} 12 Run Keyword ${keyword} 13 14Dann ${keyword} 15 Run Keyword ${keyword} 16 17Und ${keyword} 18 Run Keyword ${keyword}
Now a test can be written easily, like shown in the example below:
1*** Settings *** 2Resource ${RESOURCES}/German-BDD.txt 3 4*** Keyword *** 5Verhalten 6 [Arguments] ${arg1} ${xyz} 7 8 Sei dies, und auch ${arg1} noch gegeben 9 Und das hier ebenso 10 11 Wenn dann jenes geschieht 12 Und folgendes danach 13 14 Dann ist diese Situation eingetreten 15 Und die Daten ${xyz} befinden sich in der Datenbank 16 Und übrgens, Umlaute und Kommata in Keywords funktionieren auch 17 18| *Test Case* | | *arg1* | *xyz* | 19| 1 | Verhalten | 123 | 234 |
Note that this even works with Umlauts and punctuation marks – in Python and in Jython. A fact, that pleasantly surprised me today 🙂
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