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New issue 872 by [email protected]: Outputdir shall be timestamped
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=872
When executing a test suite with pybot the report files are stored into the
outputdir given as command line parameter. Currently we also are storing
test case specific additional output into that directory.
For each test run it is convenient to have associated the reports generated
to the additional output.
To avoid the files being overwritten outputdir shall be extended by the
timestamp (similar to option --timestampoutputs):
<outputdir>/<timestamp>/report.html (etc...
<outputdir>/<timestamp>/additional_output/.....
I did not find a setting/option to adjust this.
Workarounds:
1) Use option timestampedoutputs and parse the timestamp from report file
name to create a directory with the same name. Disadvantage is that pybot
always shall be started with option timestampoutputs
<outputdir>/report_<timestamp>.html (etc...
<outputdir>/<timestamp>/additional_output/.....
Disadvantage:
* is not completely resolving the problem
* usage of timestampedoutputs (always)
* diffing and copying reports and additional output is not as convenient
2) In a test library, reading the key "${OUTPUT_DIR}" from GLOBAL_VARIABLES
and append a timestamped/indexed directory. Additionally modify the
variables '${OUTPUT_FILE}', '${SUMMARY_FILE}', '${REPORT_FILE}', '${LOG_FILE}',
‘${DEBUG_FILE}’.
apply changes to GLOBAL_VARIABLES and to settings (instance from
RobotSettings) that is internally used.
to come to an end:
The change requests can be solved as one of following solutions:
1) For workaround 2 the instance settings shall be accessible as global
instance.
2) create new option to create a timestamped/indexed outputdir
3) automatically create a timestamped/indexed outputdir
