Issue 28 - robotframework - Tests and suites don't have unique link targets in log files

Status:	Done
Owner:	jprantan
Closed:	Apr 2009
Type-Defect
Priority-High
Target-2.1

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Reported by laukpe, Jun 16, 2008

Link targets for test cases and suites in a log file are created so that it
has the test case name prefixed with first letters of parent suite names.
In most cases this creates unique target names, but that is not guaranteed.
For example when running same test cases multiple times with different
variables test cases names are always the same, so duplicate targets are
created if parent suites start with the same letter.

An easy solutions is using the full name of the test case or suite. This
name includes all parent suite names and it is unique (at least in all
meaningful cases). The problem is that these names are quite long, but
probably they don't make log files so much bigger that it would be a problem.

Comment 2 by laukpe, Jul 21, 2008

To be implemented in 2.0.1 version.

Labels: Target-2.0.1

Comment 3 by laukpe, Jul 21, 2008

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Labels: -target-2.1

Comment 4 by laukpe, Jul 23, 2008

Just realized that there might be some features, for example related to splitting
outputs, that expect link targets to be in the 'x.y.z.My Name' format. If that's the
case this issue might be too big for 2.0.1. Need to investigate this a bit more.

Owner: laukpe

Comment 5 by laukpe, Jul 30, 2008

A bug related to names,  issue 52 , causes test execution to fail totally if a test
suite name ends with a dot. Worth taking that into account when fixing this issue.

Comment 6 by laukpe, Jul 31, 2008

Also statistics have links to suites, and when splitting outputs these link targets
are generated so that the path is expected to be in 'x.y.z.My Name' format. Fixing
the original problem thus requires changes in too many places to be safe for 2.0.1.

Owner: ---
Labels: -Target-2.0.1 Target-2.1

Comment 7 by pekka.klarck, Mar 31, 2009

Resolving this was started by refactoring how suite names are set and get in r1601.

Summary: Tests and suites don't have unique link targets
Status: Started
Owner: jprantan
Labels: -Type-Enhancement Type-Defect

Comment 8 by jprantan, Apr 03, 2009

Implementation r1633 and r1645
Tests r1634

Status: Done

Comment 9 by pekka.klarck, Apr 03, 2009

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Summary: Tests and suites don't have unique link targets in log files

Issue 28:	Tests and suites don't have unique link targets in log files
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