At any time, you can open a test plan and view the test
results. In this lesson, you log in as the test manager and view the
test log that was generated during the New Customer Order Test Case
test run.
When you execute a test, you can view the results immediately,
or you can later access the results through the history of the test
execution record.
- Log in as the test manager (Userid: mary, Password: mary).
- Open the test plan by pointing to Planning (
), and clicking View Test Plans.
- From the list of test plans, click Classics
Java Test Plan in the name column.
- Click the Test Cases section.
Note: If you have the test plan open from the previous lesson,
click Test Plan Overview to display the Table
of Contents.
- Click New Customer Order Test Case, and then click the Test Execution Records section. The result status has changed to Failed. Click the Fail (
) icon in the Last Result
column to open the results history. Tip: To
expand the Test Case section, close the Related Sites panel by clicking
the arrow between the Test Case section and the Related Sites Panels.

You can then view the
results of any executed test by clicking the Execution
Result icon (
):

The
Execution Result displays an overview of the test. You can link to
the test case or test script that was used during execution. You can
also link to any defects added or you can add other new or existing
defects.

The Result Details
outline the steps that were executed, and its result, so you can see
at what step a test failed or a defect was reported. The defect that
you created is attached to step 7. You can point to the Defect icon (
), and click the Defect ID
to open it.

By analyzing your test runs, you can identify trends and spot
where bottlenecks exist in your project.