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Generating Test Reports: Final Example

Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 23, 2011
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Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I put all examples together.  Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source The following line <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”.\LogView4.xsl”?> instructs the web browser to use XSL script for visualization of XML data. Web-page Report And here’s the source code of the script XSL Source […] ...

Exploring options for Expand/Collapse (HTML, ...

Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 14, 2011
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Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today’s post is a little bit of a side mini-project within the test reports theme. What I wanted is to add more structure in test logs, but made it summarized. So I went to explore about simple approaches in that. Very often, on static pages (without AJAX) the approach used is […] ...

XML/XSL Transformation: Using Styles

Posted by Albert Gareev on May 25, 2011
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Parent page: Generating Test Reports Let’s now take the examples from the previous post, and add more style.  Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source Did you notice the following line? <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”.\LogView3.xsl”?> This is how we instruct the web browser to use XSL script for visualization of XML data. […] ...

XML/XSL Transformation: Using Sub-Templates

Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 14, 2011
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Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I continue with more complex examples using previously demonstrated XSL parsing nodes grouped into sub-templates. Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source Note that the structure of XML file is not identical to the previous examples. It has more complexities and dependencies that need […] ...

XML/XSL Transformation: Tree to Table

Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 04, 2011
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Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present XML Tree to HTML Table transformation example. Here’s our XML record simulating logged test steps. XML Source Did you notice the following line? <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”.\Tree2Table.xsl”?> This is how we instruct the web browser to use XSL script for visualization of XML data. Web-page Report And here’s […] ...

XML/XSL Transformation: Using Complex Nodes

Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 03, 2011
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Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present example on dynamically building HTML nodes, with XSL, and from XML data. Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source Did you notice the following line? <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”.\LogView1.xsl”?> This is how we instruct the web browser to use XSL script for […] ...

XML/XSL Transformation: Stats Table

Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 02, 2011
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Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present example of an HTML Table populated with XML data. Here’s our XML record simulating stats data of a test session. XML Source Did you notice the following line? <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”.\StatsTable.xsl”?> This is how we instruct the web browser to use XSL script for visualization of XML […] ...

Generating Test Reports (the approach)

Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 01, 2011
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Parent page: Generating Test Reports The Approach The previous post sets a lot of requirements altogether. Let’s try now to put some answers. How we can have a free, portable, yet powerful viewer? If we go with a web-page format, we can use a web browser for that purpose. If we go with XML format […] ...

Generating Test Reports (MindMap)

Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 14, 2011
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Whether it’s an all-round automation tool, like TestComplete, or a lightweight Session-Based Exploratory Testing assistant, like RapidReporter, generating good test reports is a challenging task. Obviously, hand-crafted reports would be much better, and live communication is an ideal. Though quite often testers have to report in writing and/or remotely. And if testing is conducted with assistance of a […] ...

Dirty Mapping

Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 16, 2010
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Mind mapping is an extremely useful analysis and design tool. Though distinguish it with other roles, like presentation. Don’t waste your creativity, and don’t try to make a mind map fancy during brainstorming phase. Focus on the problem you solve. See also On importance of test log Telling testing story ...

Test Log Functions (WinRunner, TSL)

Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 17, 2007
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Reporting with WinRunner  built-in functions ...

Test Log Messages

Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 15, 2007
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Generic GUI object Desktop / Web Window Desktop / Web Table Desktop / Web Button Web GUI hyperlink Check box / Radio button Desktop / Web Edit Box (Input Box) Desktop / Web List Box / Combo Box Desktop Dropdown Menu ...

Telling testing story

Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 17, 2007
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What to tell? In the previous post I gave an example of interesting fishing trip story. What makes it interesting? Details! And same about software testing: details is the most important thing. Automated testing script must report every little single thing to tester to provide as detailed picture as possible When to tell? While telling a […] ...

On importance of test log

Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 15, 2007
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Test Log or Test Results? Well, I’ve got to start from definitions. Traditionally, Test Results is a table, enlisting Test Cases along with PASS/FAIL status. While one might think that PASS/FAIL status is the only important information, for Testers is more important to know what have been covered. Unfortunately, Test Case has no such granularity […] ...
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