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Running Tests - Navigating to errors in the testplan
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Using the results file to find errors
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Click on an error message and press Enter.
Navigating to errors
in the testplan
To navigate from a testplan test description in a results file to the actual test in
the testplan, click on the test description and select Results/Goto Source.
What the box icon
means
Some expanded error messages are preceded by a box icon and three
asterisks, as shown in the following figure.
What happens when you click on the box icon depends on the error message.
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If the error message relates to an application's appearance, as in
Bitmaps
have different sizes
, SilkTest opens the bitmap tool for your
platform.
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If the error message relates to an application's behavior, as in
Verify
selected text failed
, SilkTest opens the Difference Viewer.
The bitmap tool compares baseline and results bitmaps, whereas the
Difference Viewer compares actual and expected values for a given testcase.
Finding application appearance errors
When you click on a box icon followed by a bitmap-related error message,
SilkTest starts the bitmap tool, reads in the baseline and result bitmaps, and
opens a Differences window and Zoom window.