If dependent testcase is not invoked then the dependency library just shows the message but don't blocked it.

[zeeshanyshaikh]

Let say we have 2 testcases

Testcase One
   [Tags]    t1    test
   Fail       this is testcase one

Testcase Two
   [Tags]    t2   test
   Depends On Test     Testcase One
   Log       this is testcase two

If i run robot -i test and test1 fails then the message is shown and test2 is skipped

If i run robot -i t2 then in this case the message is shown but the test2 continues to run.
Message shown is

[ WARN ] Dependency not met: test case 'Testcase One' not found.

Expectation is if dependent testcases are failed or not found then no testcases should run further which are dependent on it.

[mentalisttraceur]

The behavior you want is what it used to do before v4. I guess it's time to rethink #6 and #7 and make the behavior choosable at run time somehow.

I'm not sure how soon I'll get to it - in the meantime, does using v3.0.1 instead of latest work for you?

[joonaskuisma]

I personally like this current v4 implementation. If Depends On Test Keyword would cause Fail every time with the command robot -i t2, you could not even try to run the test to see where the execution crashes, i.e. why t2 depends on t1.

If the dependency is real, when t2 is executed alone, it will fail somewhere anyway. In that example, t2 doesn't really depend on t1, so of course it goes through with that warning only.

I think the "problem" is in the robot -i t2 command, because what would be the point of running test t2 alone if it depends on test t1? It would be convenient if the execution of the t2 test could select the entire dependency chain, i.e. in this case run t1 first and then t2.

I am working on such a feature to be given as a robot --prerunmodifier option. What do you @mentalisttraceur think, would this be a good addition to this library?

[joonaskuisma]

Hi @zeeshanyshaikh !

I have created a Robot Framework PreRunModifier that solves this problem.
Check out the project utilizing DependencyLibrary either on PyPI or GitHub:

PyPI: DependencySolver
GitHub Repository