What are the best ways to integrate Robot Framework with Git?

1 Installing Git and Robot Framework

Before you can integrate Robot Framework with Git, you need to install both tools on your machine. You can download Git from its official website and follow the instructions for your operating system. To install Robot Framework, you need to have Python installed first, and then use pip to install robotframework and any other libraries you need. You can verify the installation by running robot --version and git --version in the command line.

3 Adding and committing files

To add your Robot Framework files to the Git repository, you need to use the git add command. This will stage the files for the next commit, which means they are ready to be saved in the repository. You can add individual files, multiple files, or all files in the current folder. For example, to add all files with the .robot extension, you can run git add *.robot. To commit the staged files, you need to use the git commit command with a message that describes the changes. For example, to commit the files with a message "Initial test scripts", you can run git commit -m "Initial test scripts". This will create a snapshot of the files in the repository.

6 Running tests and generating reports

One of the benefits of integrating Robot Framework with Git is that you can run your tests in different environments and generate reports for each commit. You can use the robot command to run your tests and specify the output folder, the report file, and the log file. For example, to run all tests in the current folder and generate a report and a log in the output folder, you can run robot -d output -r report.html -l log.html . You can also use Git hooks to automate the test execution and report generation. Git hooks are scripts that run before or after certain Git events, such as commit, push, or pull. You can create a Git hook by creating a file with a specific name in the .git/hooks folder and making it executable. For example, to create a pre-commit hook that runs your tests and generates a report before each commit, you can create a file called pre-commit in the .git/hooks folder and write the following code:

#!/bin/sh
robot -d output -r report.html -l log.html        

7 Here’s what else to consider

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