Rule severity thresholds

Selected rules can be configured to have different severity depending on the parameter value.

Using line-too-long as an example - this rule issues a warning when line length exceeds configured value (default 120). It is possible to configure this rule to issue a warning for line length above 120 but an error for line length above 200. We can use severity_threshold for this purpose.

robocop -c line-too-long:severity_threshold:warning=120:error=200

It supports all default severity values:

• error, e

• warning, w

• info, i

The issue needs to be raised in order for severity thresholds to be evaluated. That’s why the parameter value needs to be configured to raise an issue for at least one of our threshold ranges. In previous example, if we want to issue info message if the line is longer than 80 characters, we need to configure line_length parameter (default 120) to 80 to trigger the rule:

robocop -c line-too-long:line_length:80 -c line-too-long:severity_threshold:info=80:warning=120:error=200

Following rules support severity_threshold:

• too-long-keyword / W0501

• too-few-calls-in-keyword / W0502

• too-many-calls-in-keyword / W0503

• too-long-test-case / W0504

• too-many-calls-in-test-case / W0505

• file-too-long / W0506

• too-many-arguments / W0507

• line-too-long / W0508

• number-of-returned-values / W0510

• too-many-test-cases / W0527

• inline-if-can-be-used / I0916

• empty-line-after-section / W1009

• consecutive-empty-lines / W1012