robot framework not running on jenkins

Question

I am trying to run robot framework on jenkins locally. When I run the robot framework locally it works perfectly fine but when I try to run it with Jenkin it does not work at all and gives this error. ( using a mac )

Started by user Masnad Nehith
Building in workspace /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/workspace/test-robot-framework
 > git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree # timeout=10
Fetching changes from the remote Git repository
 > git config remote.origin.url https://github.com/nihitx/robot-framework-with-jenkins.git # timeout=10
Fetching upstream changes from https://github.com/nihitx/robot-framework-with-jenkins.git
 > git --version # timeout=10
using GIT_ASKPASS to set credentials githubpass
 > git fetch --tags --progress https://github.com/nihitx/robot-framework-with-jenkins.git +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
 > git rev-parse refs/remotes/origin/master^{commit} # timeout=10
 > git rev-parse refs/remotes/origin/origin/master^{commit} # timeout=10
Checking out Revision 5a0db902b380bacf39ffc42eb7337f62f4c59b00 (refs/remotes/origin/master)
Commit message: "new push"
 > git config core.sparsecheckout # timeout=10
 > git checkout -f 5a0db902b380bacf39ffc42eb7337f62f4c59b00
 > git rev-list dda0a775c15f953f2f80a6a4abdf484c333b8000 # timeout=10
[test-robot-framework] $ /bin/sh -xe /Users/Shared/Jenkins/tmp/jenkins5706735847575370647.sh
+ robot -d results -v inputEmail:wow5@aurorax.co tests/Aurora.robot
/Users/Shared/Jenkins/tmp/jenkins5706735847575370647.sh: line 2: robot: command not found
Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
Robot results publisher started...
-Parsing output xml:
Failed!
/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/workspace/test-robot-framework/Results does not exist.
    at org.apache.tools.ant.types.AbstractFileSet.getDirectoryScanner(AbstractFileSet.java:483)
    at org.apache.tools.ant.types.AbstractFileSet.getDirectoryScanner(AbstractFileSet.java:460)
    at hudson.plugins.robot.RobotParser$RobotParserCallable.invoke(RobotParser.java:72)
    at hudson.plugins.robot.RobotParser$RobotParserCallable.invoke(RobotParser.java:54)
    at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:998)
    at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:976)
    at hudson.plugins.robot.RobotParser.parse(RobotParser.java:49)
    at hudson.plugins.robot.RobotPublisher.parse(RobotPublisher.java:217)
    at hudson.plugins.robot.RobotPublisher.perform(RobotPublisher.java:239)
    at hudson.tasks.BuildStepCompatibilityLayer.perform(BuildStepCompatibilityLayer.java:81)
    at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$1.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:20)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:730)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:676)
    at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:186)
    at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:621)
    at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1760)
    at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
    at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:97)
    at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:415)
Finished: FAILURE

What I understood is that jenkin's cannot find the robot command but I added the robot file to the local bin directory of my computer.

Answer 1

Is the Robot Framework installed on Windows or Linux?

If it's on Windows make sure that you wrote in 'Execute batch command' the following: pybot --outputdir results <Path of you .*robot* test file> . And than, you have to add another 'Execute batch command' with an exit command (eg for windows it's EXIT 0 .

Lastly, make sure that on 'Post-build Actions' you the right directory output and files.

Answer 2

Hi I also got permission denied problem and it can be solved by giving permission to your working directory. by using this command chmod 777 -R path\\ofthe\\directory