- Testing philosophy and mechanisms discussed.

- Integration test more configurable.

Author: general-kroll-4-life

test/robot/README.md

@@ -9,6 +9,17 @@
 - [x] fix library lifetimes issue; as per https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#creating-test-library-class-or-module.
 
 
+## Distributed testing
+
+It is convenient for development- and release-critical robot tests to reside in this repository, because it accelerates the 
+delivery cycle.  There are other repositories in the org that can re-use much of this functionality; ironically the best examples are dependencies:
+
+- [`any-sdk`](https://github.com/stackql/any-sdk).
+- [`stackql-provider-registry`](https://github.com/stackql/stackql-provider-registry).
+
+These may consume entire testing modules, or more nuanced [tag-based](https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#tagging-test-cases) approaches, with [include](https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#by-tag-names) and [skip](https://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#skip) capabilities.
+
+
 ## Running yourself
 
 ### Running mocked provider tests

test/robot/integration/stackql.resource

@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ ${EXECUTION_PLATFORM}          native   # to be overridden from command line, eg
 ${SQL_BACKEND}                 sqlite_embedded   # to be overridden from command line, eg "postgres_tcp"
 ${IS_WSL}                      false   # to be overridden from command line, with string "true"
 ${USE_STACKQL_PREINSTALLED}    false   # to be overridden from command line, with string "true"
+${SUNDRY_CONFIG}               {}  # to be overridden from command line, with string value
 
 *** Settings ***
 Library           Process
 Library           OperatingSystem 
 Variables         ${LOCAL_LIB_HOME}/stackql_context.py    ${EXECUTION_PLATFORM}    ${SQL_BACKEND}    ${USE_STACKQL_PREINSTALLED}
+...               ${SUNDRY_CONFIG}
 Library           Process
 Library           OperatingSystem
 Library           String