Displaying Reports

You can use the Report browser or a web browser to display JavaTest harness reports.

If you choose to only generate a text report in an existing directory containing HTML reports, you must use an external text editor or web browser to view the summary.txt file. To use the Report Browser when viewing text reports, generate the text only report either in a new report directory or in an existing report directory that only contains plain text reports.

Display Reports in the Report Browser

To display reports in the report browser, choose Report -> Open Report from the menu bar. The JavaTest harness opens a file chooser dialog box for you to specify a report directory. When you specify a report directory, the JavaTest harness opens the Report Browser and displays the report.html file in that directory. If the report directory only contains the text version of the report, the browser will display the contents of the summary.txt file.

If you choose to display the summary.txt file the browser displays a hyperlink to the summary page. The summary page provides a text list of tests that were run and their test result status.

If you choose to display the HTML reports, a more sophisticated browser and set of reports are provided.

The JavaTest Report Browser

The following table describes the contents of the Report Browser.

Component Description
Menu bar The menu bar contains a File and a Help menu.
  • Use the File menu to generate new reports, open existing reports, and to close the Report Browser.
  • Use the Help menu to display Report Browser online help.
toolbar The toolbar contains a File field and three navigation buttons.

The File field displays the name of the current report and provides a drop-down list of reports previously opened in the browser. As reports are opened, the JavaTest harness adds their names to the drop-down list enabling you to navigate to any previously displayed report.

Report Browser's previous page button   Returns to the previously displayed report page.

Report Browser's next page button   Opens the next report page that was displayed.

Report Browser's homw page button   Returns to the report.html file. The report.html file is the root page and links to all of the other test report pages.

Contents area The Report Browser displays the report file contents in the area below the toolbar. The Report Browser displays text files as well as HTML files. For HTML files, you can use hyperlinks in the report to display additional related reports.

See Keyboard Access for a description of how the keyboard can be used to navigate the Report Browser.

Display Reports Offline

If you choose to display the reports offline, use a web browser to open the report.html file located in the appropriate report directory.

The report.html file is the root file and links to all of the other HTML reports. The following table describes the HTML files.

Report Files Description
config.html Contains the configuration interview questions and your answers used for the test run.
env.html Contains the name-value pairs derived from the configuration file that were used for the test run.
error.html Contains a list of the tests that had errors and could not be run.
excluded.html Contains a list of the tests that were excluded from the test run.
failed.html Contains a list of the tests that were executed during the test run but failed.
notRun.html Contains a list of all tests that were not excluded from the test run but were not run.
passed.html Contains a list of the tests that were executed during the test run and passed.
report.html Contains links to all of the HTML files and additional information.

The JavaTest harness also generates a summary.txt report that contains a list of all tests that were run, their test results, and their status messages. You can open the summary.txt file in any text editor.