Robot Framework Library

etr provides the following Robot libraries that provides additional keywords when using the robot plugin:

• EtrUtils

EtrUtils

Keywords

Get Random Port

Returns a random free port.

Example:

*** Settings ***
Library         EtrUtils

*** Test Cases ***

Example Test
    ${port} =  Get Random Port
    Start Process  myServer  --port  ${port}

Wait For Connection  <host>  <port>  <timeout>  [reason]  [interval]

Wait for TCP connection to be accepted on host:port or give up specified time timeout. timout must be be in Robot Framework’s time format, e.g. 2 s, 1 min, 1 minute 2 seconds.

Example:

*** Settings ***
Library         EtrUtils

*** Test Cases ***

Example
    Wait For Connection   localhost   80   6s   Wait for web server

Wait For Path  <pathname>  <timeout>  [reason]  [interval]

Wait for path element (e.g. file or directory) to exist or give up specified time timeout. timout must be be in Robot Framework’s time format, e.g. 2 s, 1 min, 1 minute 2 seconds.

Example:

*** Settings ***
Library         Process
Library         EtrUtils

*** Test Cases ***

Example
    Start Process  <daemon writing daemon.pid>
    Wait For Path  daemon.pid  6s   Wait for pidfile