Skipped tests will have fail status if suite teardown fails

Robot Framework 4.0.3 (Python 3.6.8 on win32)

*** Settings ***
Documentation      ...

Library            SeleniumLibrary

Suite Setup        Suite Setup
Suite Teardown     Suite Teardown
Force Tags         example    noncritical

*** Variables ***

*** Test cases ***
Test Cases
    Wait Until Page Contains Element    css:img[alt="Google"]
    Page Should Contain Element         css:img[alt="Gogle"]    #non correct selector intentionally

*** Keywords ***
Suite Setup
    Open Browser    https://google.com    chrome

Suite Teardown
    No existed keyword    #non correct keywordintentionally
    Close All Browsers

command line: robot --skiponfailure noncritical example.robot

Expected result some thing like this:

Really:

[pekkaklarck]

Failing suite teardowns are such a special case that I don’t think handling them differently than now is worth the effort. Most importantly, it would be hard to come up with mechanism that would leave tests passed but would make it explicit for users that there is a problem to be fixed. Anyway, discussing about that doesn’t belong to this issue. If you think that behavior should be changed, submit a new issue or start discussion on our Slack.

[pekkaklarck]

If we’d leave tests passed after suite teardown failure, there would be no indication in report about that failure. This could mean that serious problems aren’t detected. We obviously could enhance report so that suite teardown failure is reported separately, but I don’t thing that’s worth the effort and all tests passing could nevertheless mean that the problem is ignored. For wider discussion see #2135.

As discussed in the aforementioned issue, you can wrap the teardown keyword with “Run Keyword And Ignore Error” or with “Run Keyword And Warn On Failure”. The latter was actually added partly with this use case in mind (#2294).