title: Robot Framework: Populating parameters based off of a robot.properties file?
body: <p>I am attempting to mock-up a 'robot.properties' file to be utilized within my test cases with the Robot Framework. Inside my robot.properties file it contains things like for example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>project.username=stackoverflow
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>inside my test case file I have tried several times to 'import' the robot.properties file via adding within Settings: Resource  ../path/to/properties and etc (see directory structure below), but when I attempt to pass 'project.username' as an argument to a test it passes it as the literal string value 'project.username' and not the value 'stack overflow'. I am new to Robot, I have implemented this in other languages like Java/C#, but I fully assume that the import is preventing me from accessing my value. Any help would be greatly appreciated, unfortunately this way of driving testing isn't really referenced much online that I can find.</p>
  
  <p>Dir Structure:</p>
  
  <p>Tests/Acceptance/MyTestCase.robot</p>
  
  <p>Tests/robot.properties</p>
  
  <p>If I try Library  ../robot.properties I get:
  "Import by filename is not supported"
  If I try Resource ../robot.properties I get:
  "Unsupported file format .properties"</p>