2025-03-06 –, RoboCon Online
Pabot makes it easy to reduce execution time by running tests in parallel, and data driven tests are a powerful way to automate many tests with only a little extra code. However, sometimes you can create more tests in a test suite than Pabot can handle!
This presentation gives examples of some problems and possible solutions.
Every so often someone in Slack or the Forum asks how to run extremely large test suites in parallel using Pabot (a parallel test runner for RF). This talk will demonstrate problems we have run into and solutions using Pabot and the DataDriver (an extension to RF to run data driven tests from data files).
This talk is not intended to complain about Pabot or the DataDriver, but to mention some of the challenges with large test suites, and hopefully inspire people to create even better tests using these tools!
It will also introduce several techniques to reduce the number of test cases while increasing test effectiveness.
Pabot, DataDriver, Data Driven Testing, Parallel Execution, Test performance, Test Optimization, etc.
Is this suitable for ..?:Intermediate RF User
Test Architect, Mentor, Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), specializing in Test Automation and reducing Development time.