The Validate Dashboard provides you the overview and access to Validate functions. When Validate is installed in your BW, you can run the transaction /DVD/VALIDATE.
The buttons located at the top of the panel and the bottom of the screen navigate you through the functionality.
Validate Dashboard
The following buttons can be found in Validate Dashboard...
Datavard Button
Refresh (F5)
Test Management
Worklist
Settings
Validate Setup
Backend Testing [OPTIONAL]
Select Plan/Dir To Display (button inside „Dashboard“ section)
Datavard Button
The Datavard Button is located in the upper left corner of the Validate Dashboard; this provides you with general information about the Validate tool, and your license information. You can view more information about other Datavard products for your BW, below the section for Validate.
Datavard button
Select Plan or Directory
The Validate Dashboard contains visual charts that allow you to view the data related to Test Plans (i.e. what is the current status of the Test Plan or what was the progress of the Test Cases in the Test Plan since the testing started).
Selecting a Test plan
Select one of the listed Test Plans, which will be displayed after clicking on the button and several statistics will show up.
List of all available Plans in Test Management
After selecting the Test Plan or Directory, charts will appear as follows
Validate Dashboard with charts
Validate Dashboard contains three additional buttons (from left to right):
- Select Plan/Dir To Display – allows you to choose another Test Plan
- Close Interactive Charts – closes the chart section and returns you to Dashboard without charts
- Expand To Dashboard Full View – allow you to view the charts on a larger scale. The Interface of Dashboard Full View looks like this
Dashboard Full View
The Dashboard Full View contains only Refresh (F5) button. You can return to the normal Dashboard by pressing Back button (F3).
The Dashboard also remembers the last chosen Plan even after closing Validate and it will open again when the Validate Dashboard is re-launched.
The Dashboard with the charts contains 3 tabs:
- Actual Status
- Timeline Status
- Testers Overview
Each of these tabs shows different sets of data.
Actual Status
The Actual Status tab contains all Test Cases within a selected Test Plan with their last assigned status. If you want to see statistics for Variants of Test Cases rather than Test Cases themselves, check Display Variants a checkbox in the lower-left corner (under the chart).
Displaying statistics for Test Cases (left) and Variants (right)
Note that when you hover over different parts the charts will display captions.
Timeline Status
The Timeline Status tab contains a timeline that represents the changes over time of a selected Test Plan.
Timeline status
This chart also shows additional information on hover-over chart columns.
Testers Overview
The Testers overview tab contains all testers participating in a selected Test Plan and their statistics.
Testers Overview
This chart also shows additional information on hover-over chart columns.