Comment #5 on issue 500 by c.martin.taylor: Possibility to
specify 'Workflow' (or 'Scenario') for all tests to ease data-driven testing
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=500
As I understand it, this enhancement would provide a new setting-based way
to write
DDTs but would not require it. Existing test cases that use the current
approach
would not have to be changed unless some other maintenance was being done
and the
tester decided to change the test to use the new approach.
If my understanding of this is correct, and no forced changed would be
required, then
this enhancement would be good for TI and our >2 million DDT test cases.
However I
would like to propose a different name for the Setting. "Workflow"
and "Scenario"
have quite different meanings to me, particularly the latter. We have
written a set
of Test Scenario classes that sit above Robot Framework and run multiple
test cases
in Scenarios. I may offer this some time as an Open Source add-on or
enhancement to
Robot Framework, so I'd like to propose a different name for the DDT
setting.
Since what you're setting here is the name of the keyword to use for Data
Driven
Testing, why not call it "DDT KW" or "DDT Keyword" or, if a single word
name is
required with no spaces, "DDT_KW" or "DDT_Keyword". This would be a much
clearer
expression of its purpose to me and would avoid confusion with other
meanings of the
words "Workflow" and "Scenario".
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