Robot Framework Find Unused

Find unused parts of your Robot Framework project.

Robocop is great at finding unused parts in a single file. Find unused finds unused parts across all your project files.

Allows you to find unused:

• Keywords
• Keyword arguments
• Keyword return statements
• Global variables

Installation

Install with pip

pip install robotframework-find-unused

How to use

This is a command-line tool.

1. Open a command line in your Robot Framework project

2. Run the following command to show available options:

   robotunused --help

Find unused keywords

Walk through your .robot, .resource, and .py files. In those files, count how often each keyword is used (called). Keywords with 0 uses are logged.

By default, will ignore keywords from downloaded libraries.

robotunused keywords

Please note that there are limitations. For an overview of current limitations, run the following command:

robotunused keywords --help

Available options

flag	option	default	description
-c, --show-count			Output usage count for all keywords instead of only unused keywords
-f, --filter	Globlike pattern		Only output keywords who's name match the glob pattern. Match without library prefix
-d, --deprecated	include / exclude / only	include	How to output deprecated keywords
-p, --private	include / exclude / only	include	How to output private keywords
-l, --library	include / exclude / only	exclude	How to output keywords from downloaded libraries
-v, --verbose			Show more log output

Find unused keyword arguments

Walk through your .robot, .resource, and .py files. In those files, count how often each argument is used during a keyword call. Arguments with 0 uses are logged.

By default, will ignore arguments from unused keywords.

robotunused arguments

Please note that there are limitations. For an overview of current limitations, run the following command:

robotunused arguments --help

Available options

flag	option	default	description
-c, --show-count			Show usage count for all arguments instead of only unused arguments
-f, --filter	Globlike pattern		Only output arguments for keywords who's name match the glob pattern. Match without library prefix
-d, --deprecated	include / exclude / only	include	How to output deprecated keywords
-p, --private	include / exclude / only	include	How to output private keywords
-l, --library	include / exclude / only	exclude	How to output keywords from downloaded libraries
-v, --verbose			Show more log output

Find unused keyword return statements

Walk through your .robot, .resource, and .py files. In those files, count how often each keyword return value is used (assigned to a variable). Keywords whose return value is never useds are logged.

By default, will ignore keywords from downloaded libraries.

robotunused returns

Please note that there are limitations. For an overview of current limitations, run the following command:

robotunused returns --help

Available options

flag	option	default	description
-c, --show-count			Output usage count for all keywords instead of only keywords with unused returns
-f, --filter	Globlike pattern		Only output keywords who's name match the glob pattern. Match without library prefix
-d, --deprecated	include / exclude / only	include	How to output deprecated keywords
-p, --private	include / exclude / only	include	How to output private keywords
-l, --library	include / exclude / only	exclude	How to output keywords from downloaded libraries
-v, --verbose			Show more log output

Find unused global variables

Walk through your .robot and .resource files. In those files, count how often each variable is used. Variables defined in a variables section with 0 uses are logged.

robotunused variables

Please note that there are limitations. For an overview of current limitations, run the following command:

robotunused variables --help

Available options

flag	option	default	description
-c, --show-count			Show usage count for all variables instead of only unused variables
-f, --filter	Globlike pattern		Only show variables who's name match the glob pattern. Matching without {brackets} and $@& prefixes
-v, --verbose			Show more log output

Contributing

I'm open to contributions. Please contact me in the issues.

When contibuting, you'll need Poetry to manage dependencies.

Please ensure that you install the develop dependencies as well as the regular dependencies by running the following command:

poetry install --with dev

Linting

You can't merge with lint issues. This is enforced by the pipeline.

To run the linter, use the following command:

poetry run ruff check

Testing

You can't merge with failing tests. This is enforced by the pipeline.

To run all tests, use the following command:

poetry run pytest