Comment #4 on issue 133 by ChrisPrinos: Remove warning about having same
test multiple times in a suite
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=133
I'm not in favor of this change. The way I treat test names is that I rely
on the fact that full names (suite path +
test name) are unique across all tests, so a duplicate name is a always a
mistake (as pointed out in comment 2,
it's usually a result of copy-pasting tests).
Two use cases where having non-unique names is bad:
1) you post process results and save them to a database using fully
qualified test name (suite path + test name)
as a primary key
2) you post process multiple results with rebot -- how do you know if
multiple entries of tests "foo.a" are
because "a" appears multiple times in "foo", or if a single test, "foo.a"
was tested over multiple runs, or both?
I think I actually preferred this to be an error, but understand this is
not practical as it was previously a warning
and some people may use it in this way. My preference, in order, would be:
1) restore the warning as it was in 2.0.x
2) make the warning optional in a command line flag with the default for
the warning to be on
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