How to execute test cases inside browser-image

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Hi,

I create a docker image on top of marketsquare/robotframework-browser:v6.0.0 docker image :

FROM marketsquare/robotframework-browser:v6.0.0

USER root
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
RUN mkdir -m 755 logs

USER pwuser

COPY tasks/ ./tasks/
COPY libraries/ ./libraries/
COPY resources/ ./resources/
COPY variables/ ./variables/
COPY install/requirements.txt .

...

CMD robot --nostatusrc --outputdir logs -b debug.log tasks/*.robot \
    && cat logs/debug.log

I am having issue with write permissions on logs folder. When the image starts, I get a PermissionDenied error from robot claiming that it must not write the output.xml.

I already tried playing with users root and pwuser which I found in the original GItHub repository. But maybe my sources were outdated…

How can I create a folder and execute robot inside the image?

Regards,
Markus

2

is that because you set permission 755… so I guess root has write permission to the logs but the pwuser has only read and execute permissions ?

3

There is some kind of authorization mix between root and pwuser. One is running with python3 and pip3, the other on python and pip. Only 1 of them seems to have access to nodejs.

Anyway, it seems to be working like this, giving pwuser explicit ownership of the WORKDIR:

FROM marketsquare/robotframework-browser:v6.0.0

USER root

WORKDIR /app
RUN mkdir logs \
    && chown -R pwuser:pwuser /app

USER pwuser
COPY tasks/ ./tasks/
COPY libraries/ ./libraries/
COPY resources/ ./resources/
COPY variables/ ./variables/
COPY install/requirements.txt .

RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt

CMD robot --nostatusrc -d logs -b debug.log tasks/*.robot \
    && cat logs/debug.log

Like this, the tasks can be executed inside the container and I can use the container also as execution environment in my GitLab pipeline:

Validate syntax:
  stage: validate
  image: $CI_PROJECT_NAME:$CI_PIPELINE_ID
  script:
    - robot --dryrun tasks/*.robot
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