Pekka Klärck

Support creating tests in `__init__.robot` files

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Currently it is invalid to have tests in suite initialization files (i.e. `__init__.robot` files). I don't remember was there a technical reason to not allow tests when the support for...

Use term "compound keyword" instead of "user keyword"

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Robot can have two kinds of keywords. Lowest level ones are implemented in libraries using Python and higher level ones can be created using Robot's own syntax. We currently call...

Collapse long failure messages in log and report

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Currently long failure messages (over 40 lines by default, configurable with `--max-error-lines` (#2576)) are cut from the middle. This is done to avoid huge messages messing up logs and reports,...

On the lowest level the parsing model consists of tokens having different types. For most parts types are fine, but we have identified few issues with them. We should go...

Singular section headers were deprecated in RF 6.0 (#4431) and started to emit actual deprecation warnings in RF 7.0 (#4432). The earliest release we can remove their support for good...

RF 6.1 made it possible to configure what to do if lengths of lists iterated using `FOR IN ZIP` are different (#4682). The old default behavior to silently ignore items...

We have #83 about adding `get_keyword_types` that will add basic argument conversion support. Basically RemoteServer will return type information to Robot and it will do argument conversion based on it....

Search from `.robot` and `.resource` files by default

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I've been using pss for years mostly when developing [Robot Framework](https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework). It would be convenient if our custom extensions `.robot` and `.resource` were recognized by pss automatically. If you consider...

This is related to topic "AVOID: Variable assignment on test case level", and alternatively that example could be enhanced. Below is one possible example related to this adapted from http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/wiki/HowToWriteGoodTestCases#Passing_and_returning_values...

Common base class

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Currently both `DynamicCore` and `StaticCore` extend `HybridCore`. This is a bit strange inheritance hierarchy in general, but it's especially stupid to check does a library extend any of these by...