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Florian_Hofmann
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11 years ago

Log analysis by groups rather than items

Hi everybody, maybe I'm lacking some imagination and just don't find the right words that might provide me with an answer from existing sources (or make for a more descriptive subject), sorry if ye...
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    Marsha_R
    11 years ago
    Hi Florian -



    We also have some tests that are repeated many times with different data, but we don't exclude them from the log because sometimes the data itself is a clue to finding the root cause of a test failure.  



    What we did do in our logs is start using the Group feature and the Append Log and Pop Log features inside all of our tests.  We use an Append/Pop for the beginning and end of each test, at the beginning and end of each Group, and at the beginning and end of any loops.  



    Take a look at my screenshot.  It looks like a lot of extra work in the code but each of those indents in the log is an Append and that really helps the readability when a test step fails.
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Florian_Hofmann
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11 years ago
However, one question remains: 



The "details" section of the log is counting the total numbers of items that were run, and those that failed/passed the test.

Is there a way of  "telling" some items that they are associated with JIRA testcases, and include into the log how many thereof exist/passed/failed?

The current log might be helpful for developers and QA, but we also want to have logfiles with easy access to information resrticted to predefined testcases, rather than to the GUI and the workflow as general as possible...

Thanks in advance,

Florian





Edit: I tried the thing about append/pop log, but it didn't quite work the way I hoped for...the way I understand it, they have to be within the same item to get the log structure from the picture? If yes - what would I do if they are divided all among the group/item-tree? In that case, I still don't see how I can group the items...