Formatted Test Output Representation

Output from XJEase tests is rendered using HTML on the Run Tests screen in XJRunner, XJDeveloper and XJInvestigator.

Much of this output is plain text and can be displayed in contexts where formatting is not possible, such as the plain text log file and in the XJRun command-line runner. For this reason, in the formatted log file, much of the output is kept as plain text rather than being saved as HTML. Other bits of output, such as the details of Connection Test errors, or hyperlinks generated from XJEase can't easily be represented as plain text and so are stored as HTML in the log file.

Test output is therefore stored in the formatted log file as a list of two different elements:

html-output

A piece of HTML, e.g. a hyperlink, some formatted text generated with the PRINT_FORMAT function, a summary table.

text-output

A piece of plain text, either generated from the test using the XJEase PRINT function, or generated by XJRunner.