Snowride
A faster RIDE-like IDE for Robot Framework test suites
Snowride is inspired by RIDE and copies many elements of its user interface but it adds features RIDE doesn't have and is faster.
Screenshot.
Download. As a prerequisite, you must have Java 8 installed. Snowride doesn't work with any other version of Java.
Design principles of Snowride:
- Responsive. Every operation should happen immediately. Snowride should load within a second. A test suite that contains thousands of tests should load within a second. Clicking any button or pressing any key should have a result in the very next monitor frame. Snowride should never appear "frozen" or need to show progress bars because an operation takes too long.
- Efficient. Stuff that you need to do often and repeatedly should be doable as quickly as possible, via keyboard shortcuts, smart autocompletion, inspections, quick fixes, or good navigation.
- Beautiful. You should want to spend time in Snowride just because you will like looking at it.
Advantages over other Robot Framework IDEs:
- Very fast
- Doesn't freeze up
- Automated repeated testing
- Search Anything-style autocompletion
- Fast test runner
- Skeuomorphically pretty ^^
- Single file executable
Test runner screenshot:
Contributing
Submit an issue or a pull request or request maintainer access to the repository.
I'll be happy to have your contribution.