Small dynamic library to facilitate running manual Robot Framework tests

MabotLibrary.py

from itertools import chain

from robot.api import TestSuiteBuilder
from robot.libraries.BuiltIn import BuiltIn
from robot.libraries import Dialogs


class MabotLibrary(object):
    '''MabotLibrary facilitates running manual testing with Robot Framework.

    You can write your manual test case as Robot Framework test case:

    *** Test cases ***
    My manual test cases
        This test case has steps
        None of them have automation (yet)
        So executing the test case would fail with "No keyword with name '...' found." for each keyword

    MabotLibrary turns each keyword call in a test case to call to RF's Dialogs library, thus enabling the user to run the test case and interactively select for each keyword does it PASS or FAIL:

    *** Settings ***
    Library    MabotLibrary

    *** Test cases ***
    My manual test cases
        This test case has steps
        None of them have automation (yet)
        So executing the test case would fail with "No keyword with name '...' found." for each keyword

    No external dependencies: just Robot Framework and Python standard libraries.
    '''
    def __init__(self, verification_kw_prefix=''):
        source = BuiltIn().get_variable_value('${SUITE_SOURCE}')
        this_suite = TestSuiteBuilder().build(source)
        self.keyword_names = list(chain(*[[kw.name for kw in test.keywords] for test in this_suite.tests]))

    def get_keyword_names(self):
        return self.keyword_names

    def run_keyword(self, name, args, kwargs):
        Dialogs.execute_manual_step(name)