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Viewing Test Script Results Recorded with Rational Robot

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For detailed procedures, see the TestManager Help.

Viewing Test Script Results Recorded with Rational Robot

You can use Robot to record test scripts that contain verification points. After you
play back the test script, Robot writes the results to a log. Certain verification points
also have baseline data files that are saved. If a verification point fails during playback,
actual data files are also saved. Use the appropriate Comparators to view actual data or
image files and view and edit the baseline files as needed.

In addition to using the Test Log window to view the playback results of verification
points, you can use it to view procedural failures, aborts, and any additional playback
information.

A testing cycle can have many individual tests for specific areas of an application.
Reviewing the results of tests in the Test Log window reveals whether each passed or
failed. Analyzing the results in a Comparator helps determine why a test may have
failed. Review and analysis help determine where you are in your software
development effort and whether a failure is a defect or a design change.

Click Internal viewer and
select Text or HTML to either
add a tab to the Log Event
Properties dialog (Text) or launch
a Web browser displaying logged
information (HTML).

Click External viewer to see
logged data in the application of
your choice.

Click to select a Format type to
specify whether the data logged
is the actual data or the
reference to the data in an
separate file.

Enter a property name.