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Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. Following topics cover how you can work with the test results.
Results for tests in UI Test perspective
In this section, you will learn how to analyze test results in the Web UI Test perspective.
Customizing reports
You can customize reports to specifically investigate a performance problem in more detail than what is provided in the default reports.
Customizing the appearance of graphs in a report
To display the data in a table, bar chart, or line chart in a manner that caters to your test requirements, use the controls that are available in the View Options of a report.

Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. Following topics cover how you can work with the test results.
- Publishing test results to the server
  The test results indicate the quality of the application under test. Different stakeholders might want to check the quality of the application but do not have the desktop client installed. As a desktop client user, you can publish test results to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server so that others can view them from the web browser.
- Publishing specific results to the server
  If you have a single test result or multiple test results that are not published to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you can publish a single or all of them simultaneously.
- Unified reports
  Unified reports in Rational® Functional Tester provide a detailed overview of the test results. Unified reports also provide an extensive user interface that you can use to analyze or apply filters on the test results.
- Results for tests in UI Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn how to analyze test results in the Web UI Test perspective.
  - UI Test Statistical report
    You can use the UI Test Statistical report to view the performance data for your application. This report displays performance data for all of the transactions in the test, all of the steps in the test, and all of the supported computer resources.
  - Evaluating desktop Web UI results
    After the test run, Unified Report the statistical report, and test log is displayed. The statistical report displays response time data for transactions and test steps. The live report displays result for the functionality of each step and the test log shows details of each test step.
  - Customizing reports
    You can customize reports to specifically investigate a performance problem in more detail than what is provided in the default reports.
    - Creating custom reports
      If the default reports do not address your needs, you can create your own reports.
    - Viewing trending reports
      To view the trend of response time for an application over a period of time, open the trend report for a run. In addition to the response time, you can view the trend for the loops, transactions, and performance requirements for the application.
    - Filtering data in test results
      You can filter the data in a test result that is displayed in a report so that you can remove the unnecessary data and focus on the data that is significant for the analysis.
    - Customizing the appearance of graphs in a report
      To display the data in a table, bar chart, or line chart in a manner that caters to your test requirements, use the controls that are available in the View Options of a report.
    - Changing the report displayed during a run
      Use this page to select the default report that opens during a run. Typically, you select Determine default report based on protocols in test, which determines the protocols that you are testing and automatically opens the appropriate protocol-specific reports.
    - Modifying counters in a graph
      To gather additional information for diagnosing performance problems, you can modify the counters that are displayed in a graph.
    - Correcting time offset
      Response time breakdown and resource monitoring data is time stamped using the system clock of the host computer. If there are differences between the system clocks of the host computers that you include in a test, then response time breakdown and resource monitoring data are skewed in reports. The best practice is to synchronize the system clocks on all computers that you include in a test. When this is not possible, you can correct the time offset of each host computer after a test run. Typically, correct the time offset on all computers to match the system clock of the workbench computer.
  - Export test results
    You can export the test result in different formats to share it with different stakeholders.
  - Evaluating mobile test run results
    To check whether or not the mobile test ran successfully, you can open the test report. You can also view each recorded functional action in the report.
  - Logs overview
    HCL OneTest™ UI uses logs to store different types of information, which you can use to determine the reason for a test failure.
- Results for tests in Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn how to analyze test results in the Functional Test perspective.

Customizing the appearance of graphs in a report

To display the data in a table, bar chart, or line chart in a manner that caters to your test requirements, use the controls that are available in the View Options of a report.

Procedure

In the Test Navigator, expand the project until you locate the run.
Each run begins with the name of the schedule or test, and ends with the date of the run in brackets.
Double-click the run.
The default report opens.
Click the Menu icon and click the Edit icon.
Click the Settings icon for the graph or table to modify.

The controls that are available in the View Options section depend on the graph type: bar chart, line chart, or table. For each graph type, only the applicable controls are displayed. You can adjust the following controls:

Option	Description
Adapt Y Scale	To compute minimum and maximum limit on the Y axis, select the check box. (all charts)
Title	Specify a title to the graph.
Show title	To hide the title, clear the check box.
X Axis Main items	Select the item to view on the X Axis.
Stacked Items	Select the item such as Pages or Time Ranges to view them in stack instead of separate bars.
Adapt Y scale on zoomed data	To adjust the Y scale according to zoomed data, select the check box. (line charts)
Show time ranges	To display the time range in the background of the chart, select the check box.
Line smoothing	To apply corners, clear the check box.
Orientation	To view bar charts horizontally or vertically, select an orientation.
Labels display policy	To hide the labels in a bar chart, select Hidden. To be able to accommodate labels within the frame of a bar chart, select Adaptative. If you select Fixed, long labels might not be visible.
Time line visibility	To view the time line of the chart in partial or full view, select Small or Full options. Drag the time line to create a new time range. If those options are specified, you can drag and create a new time range on the chart itself. If you select None, the time line is not visible and you cannot create a new time range on the chart.

After making the changes, click Apply and from the Menu click Save.
To apply the changes to other reports, you can export the report definition and import it back. See Exporting report metadata.