RED - Robot Editor

General information

RED is modern editor based on Java IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ in future) to allow quick and comfortable work with Robot testware.

Latest release - RED 0.6.4 (2016-05-05): https://github.com/nokia/RED/releases/latest

What RED provides:

• text editor with validation and code colouring
• table editors like in Ride (currently read-only)
• debug&remote debug with:
  • breakpoints
  • testcase stepping (step into, step over)
  • runtime variable lookup & modification
• code assistance & completion for variables, keywords, testcases, resources and libraries
• real time testcase validation
• execution view
• support for plugins via Eclipse mechanisms

Binaries distribution:

RED is distributed as independent binary (Eclipse product) and Eclipse feature to be installed on existing Eclipse binary.

###Install form Marketplace/Update Site

Marketpalce: Click Help -> Eclipse Marketplace -> and type into Find field "RED"

Update Site: Click Help -> Install New Software -> Add and set address in Location to: http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/red-robot-editor/repository

Update existing RED installation

We recommend to not to do direct update of newer version, instead perform unistall old RED and install new RED after Eclipse restart. Open Help -> Installation Details, select old RED feature and perform unistall, restart Eclipse

Look & feel