RED - Robot Editor User Guide >

User guide

Material is intended to provide detailed informations about RED for users already experienced with Eclipse platform.

Contents

• 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