Status: New
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium
New issue 688 by bryan.oakley: would like to be able to associate metadata
with a test case
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=688
We want the ability to associate metadata with a test case. For example, we
have several teams that all might touch a test suite file at some point or
another. we'd like to be able to track which team added which test case.
We can embed this data in a comment, or use custom tags or custom keywords,
but it would be nice if there was some sort of built-in metadata support at
the test case level.
For example, if RF simply ignored during execution any row in a table that
began with [Metadata], that would be sufficient. Then one could write a
test case like:
||Test Case || Action || Argument || Argument
||Smoke Test || [Metadata] || team-name || team1
|| || [Metadata] || user-id || bryan
|| || Open Browsesr || http://whatever
|| || Page Should Contain || hello, world
At the coding level, the test case object could have an attribute `.meta`
which would be a dictionary of the keys and values.
