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<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
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"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
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and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
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    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
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<!DOCTYPE concept
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  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
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<concept id="GUID-C824D5A1-3330-4293-9975-496D4D6F7D45" xml:lang="en"><title>Analyzing
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Test Results</title><abstract><p>After tests complete execution, result logs can be found on the
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system drive of the device in the <filepath>\logs\testexecute\</filepath> directory.
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On the PC, if tests are executed using testdriver, results can be found in
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the following location: </p> <p> <filepath>%EPOCROOT%\epoc32\TestDriver\results\</filepath> or </p> <p> <filepath>%EPOCROOT%\epoc32\winscw\c\logs\testexecute </filepath>  </p> <p>if executing the tests manually. </p> <p>When using testdriver,
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a new test result folder is created for each test run that is, results are
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not overwritten each time a test run is executed. A .htm log file can be found
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for each script contained in the suite, in its own subfolder. </p> <p>Each
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test case in the script will consists of test blocks (usually just one), which
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will pass or fail. Each test block will execute a number of commands. Each
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of the commands performs an action on the tested APIs (calling a certain function
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of tested classes). A test case passes if all its test blocks pass. A test
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block passes if all its commands and other instructions pass. </p> <p>The
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log will display the percentage of test cases that have passed successfully.
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The script should ideally have a 100% pass rate. </p></abstract><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
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<section><title>How to interpret test results</title>       <p>Each
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test suite produces its own HTML log file containing the results of the test
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run. When examining the log file, the results at the bottom of the log should
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be checked first. This gives a summary of the number of tests in the suite
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that have passed or failed. In the body of the log, passing tests are highlighted
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in green and failing tests in red. </p> <p>If a failing test has been identified,
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its reason for failing can be seen by examining each test block in the test,
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listed between the “<codeph>START_TESTCASE</codeph> ” and “<codeph>END_TESTCASE</codeph> ”
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tags. Starting and ending tags that is, “<codeph>START_TEST_BLOCK</codeph> ”
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and “<codeph>END_TEST_BLOCK</codeph> ” of a test block which passes will be
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reflected in green with text “<codeph>Result = PASS</codeph> ” after the “<codeph>END_TEST_BLOCK</codeph> ”.
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A failing test block will instead be in red or blue (depending on the reason
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of failure), its “<codeph>END_TEST_BLOCK</codeph> ” will be followed by “<codeph>Result
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= FAIL</codeph> ” and will refer to the reason of the failure (“<codeph>ABORT</codeph> ”
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in case of abort by timeout, “<codeph>PANIC</codeph> ” followed by a panic
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string and a code in case of an unexpected panic, etc.). If the reason of
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a failure is not displayed after the “<codeph>END_TEST_BLOCK</codeph> ” then
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it can be seen within instructions contained by the test block and/or in logs
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printed in black within the test block. Failed instruction will be displayed
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in red and will end with “<codeph>Result = FAIL</codeph> ”. </p> <p>When this
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test suite is run on a real device, some of the tests may fail due to limitations
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of the device. This will be because of the device not having the correct hardware
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(for example, no modem exists for a test which needs one), or lacking the
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right software plug-ins to run the test. This can be spotted if the log displays
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that a test has failed with a -5 error (which means <codeph>KErrNotSupported</codeph>).
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This -5 error basically means that the test has failed because the functionality
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in this test is not supported on the device used. Therefore, any tests failing
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with -5 are not due to defects, but to the limitations of the device used. </p> 
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