1.10.0

This huge release introduces 7 new rules and fixes other. Robot Framework 4.1 🤖 is now supported. Some great features for developers ⌨️ like tox are also something new. It also improves the quality of the code 💻 and documentation 📄. Thanks to all the contributors for their work! 🤝 Take a look at the details below and have fun using Robocop! 👮🏻‍♂️

Remember to upgrade your Robocop with:

pip install -U robotframework-robocop

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New rules

• E0314 (empty-library-alias) checks if alias for library (after WITH NAME) is left empty: (#185)

Library      Collections    WITH NAME

• W0315 (duplicated-library-alias) if alias for library is the same as the library original name: (#185)

Library      Collections    WITH NAME    Collections

• W0527 (too-many-test-cases) checks if the number of test cases does not exceed the configured number. (#112)
  This can be easily set by configuring the rule, e.g.:
  robocop -c too-many-test-cases:max_testcases:100 -c too-many-test-cases:max_templated_testcases:200 <path_to_tests>
  Defaults are:
  • 50 test cases for a file (suite)
  • 100 templated test cases for a file (suite)
• I0912 (empty-variable) detects variables without a value (#294)
• I0913 (can-be-resource-file) suggests to change file extension to .resource if there are no tests defined inside (#380)
• I0316 (possible-variable-overwriting) detects possible overwriting of variables that are visually similar but are totally the same as read by Robot Framework parser (#120)
• I0317 (hyphen-in-variable-name) detects hyphens (-) in variable names when assigning values to prevent from accidental subtraction of values (#271)

Features

• Listing rules (with --list or --list-configurables options) now also displays a nice summary with amount of rules for each severity: (#416)

(...)
Altogether 6 rule(s) with following severity:
    1 error rule(s),
    2 warning rule(s),
    3 info rule(s).

• Added support for Robot Framework 4.1: (#433)
  • Support for new special tags (#449)
  • Support for this syntax ${var}['key']['key2'] (#451)

Fixes

• Fixed a lot of typos in code, output and documentation (#418, #419)
• semicolon : is now allowed to use when configuring rule, e.g. invalid-char-in-name with configurable invalid_chars (#428)
• Rule W1007 (uneven-indent) now properly parses indentation with templated test cases and comments (#375)
• Rule W1003 (empty-lines-between-sections) now supports comments between sections (#448)
• Rule W0301 (invalid-char-in-name) now doesn't break on embedded arguments (#421)
• Rules W0701 (todo-in-comment) and W0702 (missing-space-after-comment) now accept more cases when using comments (#447)
• Robocop disablers should now work properly (More info: #425)

Other

• Removed deprecation warnings for old rules that were renamed: (#418)
  • setting-name-not-capitalized -> setting-name-not-in-title-case,
  • not-capitalized-keyword-name -> wrong-case-in-keyword-name,
  • missing-doc-testcase -> missing-doc-test-case
• Some refactor improving readability of the code and its performance (#418, #419)
• Bug template for GitHub issue is now improved (#426)
• Block disablers can now be indented (#431)
• Added pyyaml and tox to dev dependencies in setup.py
• With introduction of tox, when contributing to codebase, you can now quickly run all tests just by running tox command for both 3 and 4 versions of Robot Framework or you can choose specific one by typing tox -e rf3 or tox -e rf4

Acknowledgements

Thanks @MoreFamed, @haklir, @adrszad for reporting bugs and features.
Thanks @UliSei, @matusaurio for contributing with comments and suggestions.