required a support adding new flag which will wait before trigger next suite

[kbogineni]

Hi
I am using pabot for robot parallel execution and I have a requirement of executing the suites in parallel but need to some time to between each suite. For example, I have suite1 and suite2 and I need to trigger them with some delay as below

Suite1 and wait $DELAY and Suite2

Could you please look at this and implement? it will be helpful for others also

[joonaskuisma]

Hi @kbogineni !

The #SLEEP keyword has been implemented and is just waiting for review and merging into the main branch. If you get a chance, please take a look at #621.

Any feedback is highly appreciated! 😊

[kbogineni]

@joonaskuisma how the pabot command looks if this is fixed

[joonaskuisma]

Here is section of updated README.md (You can find it my fork and feature branch also):

By using the command #SLEEP X, where X is an integer in the range [0-3600] (in seconds), you can define a startup delay for each subprocess. #SLEEP affects the next line unless the next line starts a group with {, in which case the delay applies to the entire group. If the next line begins with --test or --suite, the delay is applied to that specific item. Any other occurrences of #SLEEP are ignored.

The following example clarifies the behavior:

pabot --process 2 --ordering order.txt data_1

where order.txt is:

#SLEEP 1
{
#SLEEP 2
--suite Data 1.suite A
#SLEEP 3
--suite Data 1.suite B
#SLEEP 4
}
#SLEEP 5
#SLEEP 6
--suite Data 1.suite C
#SLEEP 7
--suite Data 1.suite D
#SLEEP 8

prints something like this:

2025-02-15 19:15:00.408321 [0] [ID:1] SLEEPING 6 SECONDS BEFORE STARTING Data 1.suite C
2025-02-15 19:15:00.408321 [1] [ID:0] SLEEPING 1 SECONDS BEFORE STARTING Group_Data 1.suite A_Data 1.suite B
2025-02-15 19:15:01.409389 [PID:52008] [1] [ID:0] EXECUTING Group_Data 1.suite A_Data 1.suite B
2025-02-15 19:15:06.409024 [PID:1528] [0] [ID:1] EXECUTING Data 1.suite C
2025-02-15 19:15:09.257564 [PID:52008] [1] [ID:0] PASSED Group_Data 1.suite A_Data 1.suite B in 7.8 seconds
2025-02-15 19:15:09.259067 [1] [ID:2] SLEEPING 7 SECONDS BEFORE STARTING Data 1.suite D
2025-02-15 19:15:09.647342 [PID:1528] [0] [ID:1] PASSED Data 1.suite C in 3.2 seconds
2025-02-15 19:15:16.260432 [PID:48156] [1] [ID:2] EXECUTING Data 1.suite D
2025-02-15 19:15:18.696420 [PID:48156] [1] [ID:2] PASSED Data 1.suite D in 2.4 seconds

[joonaskuisma]

Hi @kbogineni !

What you think about this solution? (See my previous comment)