title: Test automation with Jenkins + RobotFramework
body: <p>after a long Internet search I would like to ask you the following question.</p>
  
  <p>We are using Jenkins for building and unit testing of a simulation code which is written in C++.</p>
  
  <p>This works very well. After looking into fitnesse and robotframework I am still not able to run the following test problems.</p>
  
  <p>My program is a command line program which reads some input file and computes some output data. (e.g. simcode.exe -j input##.inp  --> output.dat)</p>
  
  <p>I am looking for a way that I can create a test suite via a web interface. Meaning I provide for each test case a input file and some reference output data and the test suite is than executed after a successful build out of Jenkins. Based on the results of the difference between output data and reference output data, a xml file should be created which can be given to Jenkins. This xml file should hold information about all the test case results (e.g. successful or not). </p>
  
  <p>The information of the xml file should be displayed in Jenkins again.</p>
  
  <p>I looking for an approach where I do not need to compile any library to my program.</p>
  
  <p>I would be very thankful for any hint which explains how to achieve that with the RobotFramework. (Is it even possible ?)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>