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Test Manager Guide
This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. Following topics cover how you can work with the test results.
Results for tests in UI Test perspective
In this section, you will learn how to analyze test results in the Web UI Test perspective.
Customizing reports
You can customize reports to specifically investigate a performance problem in more detail than what is provided in the default reports.
Viewing trending reports
To view the trend of response time for an application over a period of time, open the trend report for a run. In addition to the response time, you can view the trend for the loops, transactions, and performance requirements for the application.

Rational® Functional Tester
- Release Notes
  This document contains information about what's new, installation instructions, known problems in and contact information of IBM Customer Support.
- System Requirements
  This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for IBM® Rational® Functional Tester.
- Getting Started Guide
  This guide provides an overview of Rational® Functional Tester. You can find the task flows to get you started with Rational Functional Tester. This guide is intended for new users.
- Tutorials
  You can learn to start using Rational® Functional Tester by reviewing the information in the Tutorials for the UI Test perspective and Functional Test perspective.
- Samples
  You can find the sample project that you can use with Rational® Functional Tester to test the functionality of an application.
- Administrator Guide
  This guide describes how to install IBM® Rational® Functional Tester software. After you install the software, you can perform administration tasks such as license configuration and integration with other products. This guide is intended for administrators.
- Test Author Guide
  This guide describes how to create test scripts and enhances them by applying different test elements such as dataset, variables, and verification points.
- Test Execution Specialist Guide
  This guide describes how to automate the playback of the tests by using different methods such as Docker, IBM Cloud Private, Jenkins and so on. The test results can be pushed to Rational® Test Control Panel.
- Test Manager Guide
  This guide describes how to keep track of the performance of the application by evaluating the test results. Following topics cover how you can work with the test results.
  - Publishing test result to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server
    The test result indicate the quality of the application under test. There could be different stakeholders to the application who do not have the product installed but want to check the quality of application. You, as the user of the product, can publish the test result to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server so that others can view it from the web browser.
  - Publishing specific results to the server
    If you have a single test result or multiple test results that are not published to IBM® Rational® Test Automation Server, you can publish a single or all of them simultaneously.
  - Unified reports
    Unified reports in Rational® Functional Tester provide a detailed overview of the test results.
  - Results for tests in UI Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn how to analyze test results in the Web UI Test perspective.
    - UI Test Statistical report
      You can use the UI Test Statistical report to view the performance data for your application. This report displays performance data for all of the transactions in the test, all of the steps in the test, and all of the supported computer resources.
    - Evaluating desktop Web UI results
      After the test run, Unified Report the statistical report, and test log is displayed. The statistical report displays response time data for transactions and test steps. The live report displays result for the functionality of each step and the test log shows details of each test step.
    - Customizing reports
      You can customize reports to specifically investigate a performance problem in more detail than what is provided in the default reports.
      - Creating custom reports
        If the default reports do not address your needs, you can create your own reports.
      - Viewing trending reports
        To view the trend of response time for an application over a period of time, open the trend report for a run. In addition to the response time, you can view the trend for the loops, transactions, and performance requirements for the application.
      - Filtering data in test results
        You can filter the data in a test result that is displayed in a report so that you can remove the unnecessary data and focus on the data that is significant for the analysis.
      - Customizing the appearance of graphs in a report
        To display the data in a table, bar chart, or line chart in a manner that caters to your test requirements, use the controls that are available in the View Options of a report.
      - Changing the report displayed during a run
        Use this page to select the default report that opens during a run. Typically, you select Determine default report based on protocols in test, which determines the protocols that you are testing and automatically opens the appropriate protocol-specific reports.
      - Modifying counters in a graph
        To gather additional information for diagnosing performance problems, you can modify the counters that are displayed in a graph.
      - Correcting time offset
        Response time breakdown and resource monitoring data is time stamped using the system clock of the host computer. If there are differences between the system clocks of the host computers that you include in a test, then response time breakdown and resource monitoring data are skewed in reports. The best practice is to synchronize the system clocks on all computers that you include in a test. When this is not possible, you can correct the time offset of each host computer after a test run. Typically, correct the time offset on all computers to match the system clock of the workbench computer.
    - Export test results
      You can export the test result in different formats to share it with different stakeholders.
    - Evaluating mobile test run results
      To check whether or not the mobile test ran successfully, you can open the test report. You can also view each recorded functional action in the report.
    - Logs overview
      Rational® Functional Tester uses logs to store different types of information, which you can use to determine the reason for a test failure.
  - Results for tests in Functional Test perspective
    In this section, you will learn how to analyze test results in the Functional Test perspective.
- Troubleshooting
  This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with Rational® Functional Tester.
- Reference Guide
  This guide describes the additional topics to gain more knowledge about Rational® Functional Tester.
- All Guides (PDF)
  You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of IBM® Rational® Functional Tester as a PDF file.
- Security Considerations
  You can take certain actions to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls.
- Notices
  This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

Viewing trending reports

To view the trend of response time for an application over a period of time, open the trend report for a run. In addition to the response time, you can view the trend for the loops, transactions, and performance requirements for the application.

About this task

The trend report can help you determine the response times of the application at different milestones. For instance, you can run the performance test for sprint or milestone builds and tag them. When generating the trend report, you can specify conditions such as results that are less than 60 days old and include 'milestone' tag. Execution Results Filters

Execution Results Filters

You cannot save a trend report. So, if you close the report, you have to generate it again.

Procedure

To view the trend report:

In the Test Navigator view, select the run for which to open the trend report.
Right-click the run and click View Trend Report.
To view the trend that is based on certain criteria, in Filter, select a filter criteria.
If there is no customized filtering criteria, create one by clicking Manage and then Add.
To save the criteria, click Save, specify a name to the filter, and click OK.
The results in the execution results table are filtered out according to the specified criteria.
Click OK.
The trend report is generated.