Comment #1 on issue 173 by pekka.klarck: Parser could allow "non-table
comments"
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=173
You can already now have multiple test case tables (and other tables as
well) in the
test data. For example the Quick Start Guide [1] uses this approach. The
first cell
of the table needs to have 'Test Case' (or something else for other tables)
in it,
though, but if you want you can use CSS to hide the first row altogether.
[1]
http://robotframework.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/quickstart/quickstart.html
The problem with having multiple tables is that Robot IDE doesn't support
that at all
currently. More importantly, adding support for it would be _really_ big
task and
isn't likely to be done in foreseeable future. We will, on the other hand,
enhance
RIDE in the current iteration so that it will support text between
different tables
(currently it ignores everything outside tables).
Another problem with RIDE is that it totally ignores comments created
with '#'
character [2]. This, as well as ignoring the data outside tables, is due to
the fact
that RIDE uses Robot Framework's internal modules for processing the data
and RF
itself simply ignores everything that's not related to the actual test data.
[2] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-ride/wiki/Comments
In general you shouldn't need comments in the test data that much. Most of
the time
you should be able to use so describing keyword names that they need no
commenting.
Test suite and test case documentations are also natural places to add some
more
information.
The reason I wrote so much about RIDE is that I believe in the future
that's what
most people will be using for editing the test data. Adding such features
to the core
framework that aren't easily supported by RIDE isn't thus a very good idea.
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