From the course: Robot Framework Test Automation: Level 1 (Selenium)

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Robot Framework is a very powerful generic test automation framework. And there are lots of amazing things it can do, including running multiple scripts, execution order and randomization. We can use different script patterns and tag patterns to be able to run subsets of our scripts. We could halt execution on any failure. We can run using the DEBUG log level to see more information if we want to learn more about certain failures. There are argument files we can pass in to make it easier to do command line execution, so you can just pass in the name of a file instead of a bunch of command line arguments. Robot Framework has the ability to automatically re-run failed tests and then combine the results files into one result file to make things easier to analyze. And then, of course, there's a whole world to Jenkins continuous integration and continuous testing. All of these things are advanced topics and they're covered in my other videos. Robot Framework Level 2 and beyond, and also…

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