Viewing and Analyzing Results: Anatomy of the Results Viewer


The Results Viewer is a large window with several panels (see Figure 11-1).

Before you use the Viewer for the first time, take some time to familiarize yourself with each of the buttons and panels. This section describes each of the components.

Results Viewer

Task Buttons

The Viewer task buttons are the five buttons in the far left panel, excluding the View Options selections. These represent the main functions provided by the Results Viewer.

Task Buttons

Button Use this to
Open... Open a .log file or the log from archived results, for viewing.
Extract Results... Extract the results you want from the log and write them to an HTML or text file.
Archive Results... Archive all results from a test run, including gold files and failure files, into a .zip file.
Print... Print the current results screen.
Close... Close the Results Viewer

View Options

These options, located in the middle of the far left panel, control the nodes you see in the Test Results panel. Only one option can be set at a time.

Note - If you are viewing results from a single-script test run, you probably don't need to use View Options, as your test consists of a single node.

View Options

Option Sets test results to display
All All of the nodes in the JST. This setting is the default.
Failures Only the nodes that contain failures.
Exceptions Only the nodes that ended by throwing exceptions.
Restarts Only the nodes set to restart the application or applet. By its nature, the root node is always considered a restart node.

Test Results

This is the panel showing each node of your JST in tree format. If you ran a single script, you'll see only one node.

Any node with a plus sign (+) proceeding it can be expanded to reveal child nodes. You can expand a node just by clicking on the plus sign--the plus converts to a minus (-) and all the child nodes appear below the JST. You can also collapse an expanded node by clicking on the minus sign.

If a node contained a failure, the text failures: followed by the number of failures appears below the node. This gives you an idea of which results you might want to explore in more detail.

Summary

This panel offers a summary of results for the node you have currently selected. If you select the a JST node (such as the first node), the Summary panel includes data from the child nodes.

The Summary panel reports on:

Details

The Details panel, located to the middle and lower right of the window, provides:




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