Introduction

Having a good and even the best automated testing is useless if you do not have a good way to evaluate the test results.

The Axway Test Explorer is the answer of the ATS team to this crucial need. Test Explorer is a web application used to review and analyze the results of automated tests executed with the ATS framework.

Main features

The number of features is constantly growing. Here we list just the most important ones:

Web application to explore all the collected test execution data
Neat user friendly interface
Supports multiple database instances. A single application can work with many databases as needed
Lots of details
- Messages
  They help you understand how the test flow was going. They can come from the test case, from the Tested Application, from used third party libraries
- System statistical information
  Various statistical information about one or more hosts like CPU, Memory, Network, IO usage etc.
  You can also compare this info among different test executions
- User activity information
  When running performance tests, you can see how many times some test step was taken, how long time it took to execute, how much data it transferred(if it transfers data) etc.
Multi-layer test organization
Easy comparison between different test cases.
Bookmarkable pages. This allows you to send web links to particular test views
Real time behavior
ATS logging system fills the logging database in a real time, the Test Explorer is able to show this data in real time as well
Good performance
Easy to install

What is it and how does it work?

The concept is a kind of simple and it is separated in two parts

Test Explorer database

All the data is kept into one or more databases.

Currently these are MS SQL or PostgreSQL databases, but nobody needs to know this as it is not seen in any way while working with Test Explorer.

Usually it is preferred to have just one database host in your network

Test Explorer viewer

This is the web application you use to analyze the test results. It just reads the data you want from its database and displays it in an appropriate way

Simply said the tests fill the Test Explorer database with data about some test executions while the Test Explorer UI reads and presents that data.

All this works in real time.