Updates:
Status: Pending
Comment #1 on issue 1107 by pekka.klarck: Implement support for Test Load
Balancer (TLB)
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1107
TLB looks interesting and it would be great if it supported also Robot
Framework. Based on a brief look the support should be implemented as some
kind of a plugin component to TLB itself, so I'm not sure is this issue in
a right place. If changes to the framework are needed in order to support
TLB better, such enhancement request can be submitted separately.
A problem with integrating Robot with TLB is that organizing tests
independently is not that straightforward. Suites often have their own
setups and teardowns that can take lot of time (it is a good practice to
run long lasting setup/teardown activities only once) and thus tests in one
suite should generally be executed together. Another problem is that Robot
doesn't allow configuring execution order of tests, it only allows
selecting certain tests for execution.
In the current for I think this issue should be closed because it proposes
a new tool and not any specific enhancement to Robot itself. I know we have
similar issues in the tracker (e.g. requests for new libraries) but those
probably should be closed as well. This tracker should be only for issues
related to the core framework.
