# Getting below error message while trying to execute parallel testing using pabot **URL:** \ **Category:** Robot Framework\ **Created:** [30 April 2024 11:56 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/getting-below-error-message-while-trying-to-execute-parallel-testing-using-pabot/7236 "2024-04-30T11:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AbhishekNema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@AbhishekNema](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/AbhishekNema)\ **Post date:** [30 April 2024 11:56 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/getting-below-error-message-while-trying-to-execute-parallel-testing-using-pabot/7236/1 "2024-04-30T11:56:40Z")
**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 ---
**Author:** ![HelioGuilherme66](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.robotframework.org/helioguilherme66/32/34_2.png) [@HelioGuilherme66](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/HelioGuilherme66)\ **Post date:** [30 April 2024 12:09 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/getting-below-error-message-while-trying-to-execute-parallel-testing-using-pabot/7236/2 "2024-04-30T12:09:11Z")
You need to install `robot`: ```python python -m pip install robotframework ``` ---
**Author:** ![rasjani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@rasjani](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/rasjani)\ **Post date:** [30 April 2024 12:24 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/getting-below-error-message-while-trying-to-execute-parallel-testing-using-pabot/7236/3 "2024-04-30T12:24:13Z")
@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 ---
**Author:** ![AbhishekNema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@AbhishekNema](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/AbhishekNema)\ **Post date:** [3 May 2024 06:24 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/getting-below-error-message-while-trying-to-execute-parallel-testing-using-pabot/7236/4 "2024-05-03T06:24:57Z")
I did but still it is not working ---
**Author:** ![rasjani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@rasjani](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/rasjani)\ **Post date:** [3 May 2024 06:59 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/getting-below-error-message-while-trying-to-execute-parallel-testing-using-pabot/7236/5 "2024-05-03T06:59:25Z")
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](https://github.com/mkorpela/pabot/issues/578) - I’ve had this on local bank where i was doing qa consultation… ---
**Author:** ![rasjani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/858c86/32.png) [@rasjani](https://forum.robotframework.org/u/rasjani)\ **Post date:** [22 May 2024 22:32 UTC](https://forum.robotframework.org/t/getting-below-error-message-while-trying-to-execute-parallel-testing-using-pabot/7236/6 "2024-05-22T22:32:30Z")
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](https://github.com/mkorpela/pabot/pull/584)