enhancement the "startTime" fields of steps in the test report

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hyao123 asked Jun 23, '10 hyao123 posted Jun 23, '10

enhancement the "startTime" fields of steps in the test report

hi,

To make step execution more clear, we would like startTime field of steps in the test report using the real start time value instead of the startOffset so that we can quickly find error info in the SUT logs.(of course users can add this value with the start time mannually). After investigation, i tried the following way to do this:

using one xsl:variable (global) to record the startTime value in TestReportDocument node like

<xsl:variable name="start">

<xsl:value-of select="/report/TestReportDocument/startTime">

</xsl:variable>

then use this in the template (of course render-step template

<xsl:template match="ExecutedStep">

<xsl:call-template name="steps">

...

xsl:with-param name="startTime" select="$start"/>

</xsl:call-template>

......

</xsl:template>

however, I can't get the value of startTime using statement like above. is it the right XPath for startTime?? Thanks advance for your help.

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Answer 1 · 2010-06-23T16:39:01Z

IvanS answered Jun 23, '10 IvanS posted Jun 23, '10

Unfortunately this is not possible due to implementation of report exporting in iTest.

You can refer this topic for more information:

http://forums.fanfaresoftware.com/t5/General-iTest-Topics/HTML-Test-Report-XSLT-Modification-s-for-TimeStamp/m-p/12900

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KumarS commented · Jun 27, 2010 at 10:33 PM

It should be possible to do if we can add a helper function which allows one to do "time" additions in XSLT. We can do this as a bug fix so that our users can call the injected function from XSL.We already inject a function to format date/time according to our conventions.

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hyao123 KumarS commented · Jun 28, 2010 at 12:38 AM

Glad to know this. Could you please let me know when this can be available? and how can user to use this function? Thanks in advance.

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KumarS hyao123 commented · Jun 28, 2010 at 03:56 PM

Remember that this is forum for discussion. You should put in your request for this enhancement through official channels i.e. Fanfare support.

If you wanted to do this today - you could write a separate tool to post-process all the HTML reports so that they have timestamps instead of offsets. Any iTest testcase or perl script can go through all the generated HTML reports in a folder and change the offsets to timestamps by doing the proper math and writing a new HTML file.

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hyao123 KumarS commented · Jun 29, 2010 at 01:01 AM

Thanks for clarification. I have raised request for this throuth tech support.

I think the elegant way to handle this is processing through xslt during saving report instead of post-processing. Thanks

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Answer 2 · 2010-06-23T04:33:37Z

YujieL answered Jun 23, '10 YujieL posted Jun 23, '10

I'm not that familiar with xslt, but looking at some of the summary.xslt that iTest ships with, the xpath for summary information always started with TestReportDocument. I couldn't find any example where it is prepended with "report". Try removing the report node and see if it works.

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hyao123 commented · Jun 23, 2010 at 05:14 AM

thanks for your quick reply. it still doesn't work after removing the report node in item.xslt.

however, I use the following code in other xslt editor(stylus studio2010) to debug, it works (input XML is the raw xml file of test report),

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:variable name="start" select="report/TestReportDocument/startTime"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:message>
        <xsl:value-of select="$start"/>
    </xsl:message>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

any other suggestions? I am not sure if iTest did some other processings before apply template. Thanks

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