Lesson 17 Topic 3 Features
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Introduction of Worksoft SaaS Feature/Concept :: Lesson 17 :: Topic 3
1. Analytics - Dashboard
Worksoft SaaS Analytics Dashboard is a subset of the Analytics Reports which lets you visualize the Test Cycle Level Test Outcomes Reports in pictorial representation at a glance.
It helps you gain valuable insight and drives in giving you a quick understanding of the results of the test runs executed on your application.
- Total number of Test Runs tagged to a test cycle
- Total number of Run Definitions within a project and test cycle
- Cumulative Execution Time and Test Cycle Window Duration
- Different Slots for the entities like Test Cycle, Environment, etc. which are configurable in the analytics configuration representing the test results. It contains multiple slots, the first 2 slots are shown with pie charts and the rest of the slots are shown in bar graphs. These slots can be customized according to your company needs. For example, you have a requirement of viewing the results based on ‘Testing Platform’, where you can configure the setting accordingly and directly view it in the dashboard instead of performing drill-down to the respective report. Thus, it gives you the provision to directly access the required reports on a high level.
- Download report as SVG: You can download the respective image in the form of SVG format
- Zoom in/out: The viewport area can be zoomed in and out to check the results in a detailed fashion
- Pan: This allows you to adjust the viewport area
- Autoscale: When you open any report in the expanded view, by default the data is shown according to the viewport area when you perform autoscale action, the full report can be viewed
- Reset Axes: When you perform any of the actions like pan control or zoom in/out, the axes would not be the same position at zero, so this allows you to reset the axes to zero
- You can also drill down to the below level reports and to test runs home with the filtered results by just right-clicking on the report which you are accessing in the expanded view.
Action controls available in the Dashboard: The action controls on the Analytics Dashboard include:
- Navigation Control: A breadcrumb is available before the test cycle identifier which allows you to drill down to and fro between the analytics reports and dashboard
- Toggle: On performing this action it will show you the counts of the test runs results in terms of percentage.
- List View: When you click on this icon, you can see the chart in the expanded view.
- Dashboard Configuration: This will allow you to set the configuration for the dashboard.
The slots in the analytics dashboard can be configured according to your business needs where you can set the respective reports which you are interested in.
You can configure the slots for the analytics dashboard in two ways:
- By configuring from the Worksoft SaaS Analytics Configuration by editing a project where you can even configure the analytics reports hierarchy
- By clicking the Dashboard configuration icon available in the Analytics Dashboard Home
You can see the respective values being highlighted in red if the same combination is already available.
Once, the slots and row numbers are selected, you save and close the popup. Currently, the position for the 'Test Cycles Comparison' in the Analytics Dashboard has defaulted, so you can see the slot number and row number in the disabled state.
3. My Project Settings for Analytics Dashboard
The settings & preferences are grouped into the following section(s):
- Criteria for Auto-selection of Default Test Cycle for display on the Test Cycle Analytics Dashboard: The 'Default Test Cycle' setting allows you to choose a specific test cycle you want to land on whenever you go to the Analytics Dashboard or to have the recently generated test cycles as the default one to be displayed in the 'Analytics Dashboard' within the Worksoft SaaS portal. By default, the 'Test Cycle for which analytical reports got generated most recently' is selected. If you wish to have a specific test cycle to be shown all the time, you can select the test cycle from the dropdown.
- Landing View within Analytics module: The 'Default Tab' setting allows you to choose the tab you want to land on whenever you go to the home screen of the 'Analytics' module within the Worksoft SaaS portal. The default is 'Test Cycle Dashboard'. The other option that you can choose is to go to 'Analytics Tree View' instead.
- Count of Run Definitions to display on Test Cycle Dashboard: By default, the counts of the run definitions which are used during the initial generation of the Analytics report is selected. You can select the other option 'Use the counts as of the most recent generation of Analytics for a Test Cycle' from the dropdown based on your preference.
- Show the following sheets in Transactional Details Report (View limited to Project Lead only): By default, only the "Failed Transaction Log" along with the Test Cycle Summary information is available in the Transactions Detail Report. To have the additional sheets in the "Transactions Detail Report, you can select the sheets from the Analytics tab in "My Project Settings" and on performing save action, the settings will be saved and the respective sheets can be viewed in the Transactions Detail Report. Please note that this setting is available only for the "Project Lead" role.
- Show the following Custom Raw Data Reports in Dashboard (View limited to Project Lead only): By default, you can view all the sheets available in the Raw Data Reports dropdown having "Test Outcomes by Run Definition" as the default report in the Analytics Dashboard. And if you do not wish to see any of the reports in the dropdown. you can have the default setting made by unchecking the checkboxes available next to the options(as shown in the above GIF). Once, you perform "Save", the changes will be reflected in the Analytics Dashboard. Please note that this setting is available only for the "Project Lead" role.