Nexial Execution Dashboard HOWTO

Introduction

This is a feature of Nexial to render a dashboard-like, Web-based report across multiple test executions. This report helps its reader to visual the high-level execution characteristics over time, which includes:

• Number of steps executed per execution or per iteration
• Number of steps PASSed per execution or per iteration
• Number of steps FAILed per execution or per iteration
• Overall PASS % per execution or per iteration
• Time spent per execution or per iteration

In addition to the above, one may also access the individual execution report (spreadsheet) per iteration.

Jenkins Setup

Displaying Execution Dashboard on a Jenkins job page

1. One-time Setup
   • Plugins needed: anything-goes

   • Jenkins

     Manage Jenkins

     Configure Global Security ( http://\[jenkins_host\]/configureSecurity/ ):

     • Under Markup Formatter, select Allow arbitrary HTML includin JavaScript (UNSAFE)
       
2. On Job Page
   • click edit description
   • enter description as
     

     <iframe style="float:right; height:700px !important; width:500px !important; margin:0; padding:4px; border:none" 
            src="<YOUR_S3_LOCATION_AS_URL>/executionsummary.html?project=INSERT_YOUR_PROJECT_NAME_HERE&orientation=rightside">
     </iframe>
     

     replace src url with your executionsummary.html url
     replace INSERT_YOUR_PROJECT_NAME_HERE with your project name
     replace <YOUR_S3_LOCATION_AS_URL> with your project name
     

   • click Submit to save changes
   • Note that you can put the above HTML as part of your job description (recommend at the end).

Confluence Setup

Displaying Execution Dashboard on a Confluence page

1. Create or Edit a Confluence Page.
2. Move cursor to the appropriate spot on the page.(Where you see plus(+) sign)
3. From Confluence Edit toolbar, select Insert > Other Macros
   
4. From the popup window, enter HTML to search.
5. Select the macro HTML.
   
6. Click Insert
7. Back on the Confluence page, in Edit mode, you should see a “box” titled HTML.
8. Insert this html text in box, enter

   <iframe width="100%" height="650px" style="float:right;width:100% !important;min-height:100% important;margin:0;padding:0;border:none" 
           src="<YOUR_S3_LOCATION_AS_URL>/executionsummary.html?project=INSERT_YOUR_PROJECT_NAME_HERE">
   </iframe>
   

   replace src url with your executionsummary.html url
   replace INSERT_YOUR_PROJECT_NAME_HERE with your project name
   replace <YOUR_S3_LOCATION_AS_URL> with your project name
   

9. Finish the rest of your editing, and click Save.