Getting below error message while trying to execute parallel testing using pabot

Robot Framework
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Command Used
pyhton -m pabot.pabot --processes 2 --outputdir Results 2 Test*.robot
Error Message
2024-04-30 17:21:43.805198 [PID:31384] [0] [ID:0] EXECUTING Nitori
2024-04-30 17:21:44.095085 [PID:31384] [0] [ID:0] Execution failed in Nitori with 1 failing test(s)

‘robot’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

WARN: No output files in “Results2\pabot_results”
0 tests, 0 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped.

Output:
[ ERROR ] Reading XML source ‘’ failed: No such file or directory

Try --help for usage information.
Total testing: 0.20 seconds
Elapsed time: 0.38 seconds

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You need to install robot:

python -m pip install robotframework
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@HelioGuilherme66

Pabot does have install dependency for rf > 3.2 or something similar so there definitely should be robot executable but …

On certain sort of environments (like finance) - creating / installing executables at install time like pip does be disabled. Pabot 100% relies on these executables to be present and if they are not, pabot execution will fail. As alternative, pabot should get it’s interpreter and call that external robot with python -mrobot.run ... but there’s no such code in pabot. Only way to get this working is to patch few files in pabot manually

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I did but still it is not working

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  1. your PATH environment does not contain Scripts folder so any executables generated when python packages are available by default. How to fix, depends on how/where your python is installed. Easiest way would be to utilize virtual env of your choice.
  2. Pabot relies on python generated executable when spawning instance of robot framework · Issue #578 · mkorpela/pabot · GitHub - I’ve had this on local bank where i was doing qa consultation…
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Made a patch against pabot to fix the issue i described earlier; use sys.executable to run robot by rasjani · Pull Request #584 · mkorpela/pabot · GitHub

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