Comment #3 on issue 589 by c.martin.taylor: ROBOT_LIBRARY_SCOPE = "GLOBAL"
is ignored in RF 2.5
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=589
By restructuring some AutoItLibrary test suites I've been able to reproduce
this bug using non-proprietary code that tests the Windows Calculator
application. Unzip the attached file to C:\ on a Windows machine with Robot
Framework 2.5 installed on it. Install the AutoItLibrary from here:
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-autoitlibrary/. Double click on
the CMD file Issue598_Demo\~RunTests\RunTests.bat to run the tests in the
same way that I'm running my proprietary tests. Observe that the
AutoItLibrary is initialized per-suite.
In building this I realized that the issue is probably due to the fact that
I reference the resource file at each of the 3 suite levels. This resource
file imports the library. In RF 2.1.3 it was smart enough to not re-import
libraries that were already imported and had the GLOBAL scope setting.
This "smartness" seems to have been broken in RF 2.5. I do this
multi-level resource importing so that users can select suites to run at
any level in the suite folder hierarchy.
Attachments:
Issue598_Demo.zip 8.9 KB
