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 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.

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