Defect Flow Report

The defect flow report is a tool which allows the customer to visualize the results of a playback. The output is broken down into a flow of numbers starting from the test scripts based upon their type (dialog transactions, inbound RFC etc), then those scripts that become failures or errors during the playback.

The failures are then broken down further into the various reasons for the faliures and ultimately the the defects they become. Further, the errors are broken down into the grouped reason for the technical error.

*Errors do not become defects – only failures do.

The report to run to visualize this data is program /BTI/AUT_DEFECT_FLOW. You specify an execution queue as the primary input parameter. Additional parameters exist, but the next most important parameter is the output file. This will download a file to your local machine so that it can be opened, copied to the clipboard and then pasted into the display of the visualization tool “Sankey Builder”.

Navigate in your browser to www.sankeymatic.com/build. Copy and paste the output of the report into the area and the sankey diagram will appear. You can also change the settings of the output of the sankey diagram (e.g. making the view larger if desired).

*Please note that you do no need to specify a local file to download to. If you don’t, then the data will be output to the screen. In this case, you could copy the list into the clipboard and then paste into the visualization tool.