Viewing and Analyzing Results: Archiving Results


You can archive your results--log files, gold files, and failure files--to a .zip file. This is useful when you want to save the complete result environment for later comparison. If you later want to examine the gold file and failure files, you can restore them. If you did not archive the files and you continued to run this test, you would lose the original information as they would be overwritten by new results.

Archive works similarly to Extract. To archive results:

  1. Open the Results Viewer.

  2. Click the Archive button.
    You can find this button in the left button panel. Click this button opens the Test Archive dialog.

    Test Archive dialog

  3. Enter the path for the directory containing the results you want to archive.
    This is the directory you specified as the results directory when you originally ran the test.

  4. Type in the log file name or browse to locate the file.

  5. Select which reporting options you want to include in the archive.
    See the descriptions of these options in Table 11-6. By default, all options are selected. Click on an option to de-select it.

  6. Enter the directory where you want to store the archive.
    If the directory does not already exist, JavaStar creates it when it generates the archive.

  7. In the Archive name field, type in the filename.
    Don't provide an extension--JavaStar adds the .zip extension for you.

  8. Click the Archive button.
    JavaStar confirms successful completion.

    Note - To later restore an archive, use a tool that restores a file compressed using the .zip format. You can then use the Results Viewer to view the log files and examine the restored gold files.




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