Analyzing Test Results

When QuickTest finishes running the test, the Test Results window opens. Initially, the Test Results window contains two panes which display the key elements of our test run.

The left pane displays the results tree, an icon-based view of the steps that were performed while the test was running. The results tree is organized according to the Web pages visited during the test run and can be expanded (+) to view each step.

The Test Results window contains a description of the steps performed during the run session. It displays a single run iteration. After you run a component, the Test Results window displays all aspects of the run session, including:

• A high-level results overview report (pass/fail status)
• The data used in all runs
• An expandable tree of the steps, specifying exactly where application failures occurred.
• The exact locations in the component where failures occurred
• Detailed explanations of each step pass or failure, at each stage of the component.

The steps performed during the test run are represented by icons in the tree. We can instruct QuickTest to run a test or an action more than once using different sets of data in each run. Each test run is called an Iteration, and each iteration is numbered.

The right pane displays the test results details. The iteration summary table indicates which iterations passed and which iteration failed. The status summary table indicates the number of checkpoints or reports that passed, failed, and raised warnings during the test.

View the test results for a specific step.

In the results tree, expand (+) Test Recording Summary > Recording Iteration 1 (Row 1) > Action1 Summary > your application > your test name. 

The Test Results window now contains three panes, displaying:

• The results tree, with one step highlighted
• The test results details of the highlighted step
• The Active Screen, showing a screen capture of the Web page on which the step was performed.

When you click a page in the results tree, QuickTest displays the corresponding page in the application view. When you click a step (an operation performed on an object) in the results tree, the corresponding object is highlighted in the application view. In this case, the Departing From text box is highlighted.