RED Robot Editor User Guide

Contents

• About this Guide
• Legal
• RED key shortcuts cheatsheet
• First steps with RED
  • Download and install
  • Eclipse principles
  • Setting up environment
  • Create project, add test and run
  • Preferences and red.xml
• User guide
  • Quick start with RED - Robot Editor
  • General usage hints
  • Project configuration
    • Overview of red.xml
    • Recognizing external libraries in RED
    • Custom PYTHONPATH/CLASSPATH and path relativeness
    • Variable mappings
    • Global variables files
    • Dealing with libraries absolute paths
  • Working with RED
    • Table Editors - general usage hints
    • Variable typing in editors
    • Content assistance
    • Code templates
    • Importing files and projects to workspace
    • Dark theme in RED
  • Validation
    • Limiting validation scope
    • Configuring problems severity
    • Running validation in command line
    • Tasks/TODO
  • Launching Tests
    • User interface
    • Local launches
    • Local launches scripting
    • Remote launches
    • Parameterizing launches
    • Controlling execution
    • Debugging Robot
      • User interface
      • Breakpoints
      • Hitting a breakpoint
      • Debugger preferences
      • Debugging Robot & Python with RED & PyDev
    • Launching preferences
    • RED Tests Runner Agent
  • Integration with other tools
    • Mounting folders via SSH
    • PyDev and PyLint
    • Robot Framework Maven plugin
    • Running tests using Gradle
    • Robot Framework Lint
  • Known issues and problems
  • Diagnostics
• What's new
  • RED 0.9.0
  • RED 0.9.1
  • RED 0.9.2
  • RED 0.9.3
  • RED 0.9.4
  • RED 0.9.5

About

RED is modern editor based on Eclipse IDE to allow quick and comfortable work with Robot testware.

What RED provides:

• text editor with validation and code coloring
• table editors like in Ride fully synced with source
• debug&remote debug with breakpoints, testcase stepping (step into, step over), runtime variable lookup & modification
• code assistance & completion for variables, keywords, testcases, resources and libraries
• real time testcase validation
• execution view
• support for plugins via Eclipse mechanisms
• support for Robot formats: .txt, .robot, .tsv (HTML format is not supported)

Look & feel