Plone test development with robotframework and RIDE

Running acceptance tests in Plone Test driven development (TDD) can be a pain. If you are working with Zope and Plone most of time gets consumed starting up Zope running setUp method and rolling back transaction in tearDown method. So why not use a running already set-up instance for test-development? Today I will show you how to reach that goal. It’s not as hard as it seems. Use buildout Of course we use buildout to get a custom script which we can run through RIDE. I configured a new pybot script, the basic idea has been implemented in plone.act1 module already. ...

November 29, 2012 Â· 2 min Â· 256 words Â· dw