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IBM Cognos 8 Platform => COGNOS 8 => Report Studio => Topic started by: loufan on 27 Sep 2011 04:45:06 AM

Title: Urgent help
Post by: loufan on 27 Sep 2011 04:45:06 AM
How to test the report? Awaiting your urgent reply.

Pls email ASAP: muppetbaiter@incognito.com

It's urgent. Thx.
Title: Re: Urgent help
Post by: Arpitagrawal9 on 27 Sep 2011 06:17:16 AM
Please do not share the email ids

There can be few test that can be done for data testing and few test which can be used for functionality testing


Data testing
Run the report and get the data and Run the SQL against the database finally you can Compare the two results.There should be 100% match in the data

Functionality testing

Check for Default Run of the report
Links and drills on Report
Validate Prompt results
Column Heading allignment (left for attributes, center for metrics)     
Column Values allignment (left for attributes, center for metrics)     
Column Values data format (decimal places, currency, date etc)     
Column Order (match with current reports if available)     
Prompts sorting - asending for start, descending for end     
Export to Excel
Report Vs Excel Values
Drilling/Toggling
No data found scenario
No of Rows
Browser Compatibility
Performance of Report
Check if Thresholds/ Conditional Formatting is correctly applied.