Hi Bruno,
Think of the tags more like an identifying string rather than a key:value pair.
Referring to the documentation for Tag patterns and Simple patterns I came up with the following example for you:
Example robot file:
marques-bruno_1.robot
*** Test Cases ***
#
# Version 1
#
TC1 - v1.0
[tags] Version_1.0
Log TC1 - v1.0
TC1 - v1.1
[tags] Version_1.1
Log TC1 - v1.1
TC1 - v1.2
[tags] Version_1.2
Log TC1 - v1.2
TC1 - v1.3
[tags] Version_1.3
Log TC1 - v1.3
TC1 - v1.5
[tags] Version_1.5
Log TC1 - v1.5
TC1 - v1.9
[tags] Version_1.9
Log TC1 - v1.9
#
# Version 2
#
TC1 - v2.0
[tags] Version_2.0
Log TC1 - v2.0
TC1 - v2.1
[tags] Version_2.1
Log TC1 - v2.1
TC1 - v2.2
[tags] Version_2.2
Log TC1 - v2.2
TC1 - v2.3
[tags] Version_2.3
Log TC1 - v2.3
TC1 - v2.7
[tags] Version_2.7
Log TC1 - v2.7
TC1 - v2.9
[tags] Version_2.9
Log TC1 - v2.9
#
# Version 3
#
TC2 - v3.0
[tags] Version_3.0
Log TC1 - v3.0
TC1 - v3.1
[tags] Version_3.1
Log TC1 - v3.1
TC1 - v3.2
[tags] Version_3.2
Log TC1 - v3.2
TC1 - v3.3
[tags] Version_3.3
Log TC1 - v3.3
Examples of calling this file:
Run everything:
% robot marques-bruno_1.robot
==============================================================================
Marques-Bruno 1
==============================================================================
TC1 - v1.0 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.1 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.2 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.3 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.5 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.9 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v2.0 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v2.1 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v2.2 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v2.3 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v2.7 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v2.9 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC2 - v3.0 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v3.1 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v3.2 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v3.3 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marques-Bruno 1 | PASS |
16 tests, 16 passed, 0 failed
==============================================================================
Run only version 1.x test cases
% robot --include 'Version_1*' marques-bruno_1.robot
==============================================================================
Marques-Bruno 1
==============================================================================
TC1 - v1.0 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.1 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.2 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.3 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.5 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.9 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marques-Bruno 1 | PASS |
6 tests, 6 passed, 0 failed
==============================================================================
Run all version 1 test cases and all version 2 up to version 2.2
% robot --include 'Version_1.*' --include 'Version_2.[1-2]' marques-bruno_1.robot
==============================================================================
Marques-Bruno 1
==============================================================================
TC1 - v1.0 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.1 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.2 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.3 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.5 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v1.9 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v2.1 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TC1 - v2.2 | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marques-Bruno 1 | PASS |
8 tests, 8 passed, 0 failed
==============================================================================
Naturally if you want to test version 2.7:
robot --include 'Version_1.*' --include 'Version_2.[1-7]' marques-bruno_1.robot
or version 3.3:
robot --include 'Version_1.*' --include 'Version_2.*' --include 'Version_3.[1-3]' marques-bruno_1.robot
Or for version 3.3 you could also do:
robot --include 'Version_[1-2].*' --include 'Version_3.[1-3]' marques-bruno_1.robot
this might be useful if you wanted to test version 8.5 because then it would be:
robot --include 'Version_[1-7].*' --include 'Version_8.[1-5]' marques-bruno_1.robot
Hope that’s what you wanted,
Dave.