Comment #9 on issue 702 by [email protected]: Rerun failed tests
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=702
This is such a usefull feature that its worth waiting for. Please dont drop
this feature. I have a different way to implement that that would handle
all(?) the scenarios.
How about having a keyword that would be run on either suit setup/testcase
setup/teardown that instructs to rerun n times if it encounters a specific
error.
eg,
Rerun Testcase On Error no_of_attempts, *list_of_error
I use RF for E2E integration testing and most of our test suites run for a
couple of hours. At the end of which we see that some of the fail randomly.
I suspect its because of race conditions as RF + Selenium updated the web
page very fast and it would be sad to slow it down with many sleeps'. But
the company would pay for fixing it as its not possible to recreate
manually.
tl;dr its needed in cases where "Its not an error if its not reproduceable."
