The following code samples illustrate how to implement custom fields using the Perfecto Execution Context.

	// Define other fields like tags, project, and job details.
	Project project = new Project(reportConstants.getProjectName(), reportConstants.getProjectVersion());

	Job job = new Job(reportConstants.getJobName(), Integer.parseInt(reportConstants.getJobVersion()))
	.withBranch("awesome_vcs_branch");


	// create a list of custom fields.
	List<CustomField> customFields = new ArrayList<CustomField>();

	// Define a custom field with Key value pair.
	CustomField author = new CustomField("author", "sdet1@awesomecompany.com");

	// Add the custom field to custom field collection.
	customFields.add(author);
	
	// Perfecto Execution Context definition.
	PerfectoExecutionContext execContext = new PerfectoExecutionContext.PerfectoExecutionContextBuilder()
	.withContextTags(tags)			// Add tags to Perfecto Execution Context	
	.withProject(project)			// Add Project details to Perfecto Execution Context
	.withJob(job)					// Add Job details to Perfecto Execution Context	
	.withCustomFields(customFields)	// Add Custom fields to Perfecto Execution Context
	.withWebDriver((WebDriver) driver).build();

	// Define CustomFields Object
	var customFieldsObject = {
		'author':'sdet1@awesomecompany.com'
    };

	// Initializing Perfecto Execution Context
	var executionContext = await new Reporting.Perfecto.PerfectoExecutionContext({
		webdriver: browser.driver,
		job: new Reporting.Model.Job({
			jobName:  this.pJobName,
			buildNumber: this.pJobNumber,
			branch: this.pBranchName
		}),
		customFields: customFieldsObject,
		tags: ["awesome"]
	})
   
	// Initializing Reportium client
	browser.reportingClient = await new Reporting.Perfecto.PerfectoReportingClient(executionContext);

You can also add custom fields via the testStart or testEnd methods. With this implementation, custom fields are created based on data created by the test itself.

@Test
public void myTest() {
reportiumClient.testStart("myTest", new TestContext.Builder()
                                        .withTestExecutionTags("Sanity", "Nightly")
                                        .withCustomFields(new CustomField("version", "OS11"))
                                        .build());
...
}

In the Report Library and Heatmap views, the list of custom fields is available in the right pane from the ADD FILTER GROUP option. You can also group by custom fields and add a custom field column to the report table. For information on how to filter by custom fields, see Report Library.

Tags

Smart Reporting allows you to attach a set of tags to a test or a specific subset of the test. You may later use these tags to create different cross-sections of the test results and to focus on a specific subset of test reports.

It is important to use tags that are meaningful and valuable to your teams. Tags should be classified into different buckets:

• Execution level tags: Configured across all tests in a particular execution.
• Single test tags: Identify specific tests that may exercise a particular subset of the application.
• Logical step names: Identify the different logical execution steps of the test.

To learn more about how to optimize your tags for easier report analysis, see Tag-driven reports (RTDD workflow).

Context classes

The Reporting SDK includes the following Context classes used to declare parameters associated with different sets of tests:

reportiumClient.testStart("myTest", new TestContext.Builder()
                   .withTestExecutionTags("Sanity", "NewNote", "Android")
                   .withCustomFields(new CustomField("team", "dbApps"))
                   .build());

Job identification

When using Continuous Integration tools to automatically generate and run your tests, for example when performing regression testing, the CI tool associates a Job Name and Job Number with each run of the process. In addition, you may have different versions of the tests defined in different branches of the repository. Import these identifiers into your tests and tag the tests to associate the Single Test Reports with these CI Jobs. Learn how to import the job identifiers for different CI Tools here. Then view the Test summary reports in the CI Dashboard.

Test steps

Within each test, it is possible to group the different executed commands into logical steps. You can identify each step by a step name, and the step name displays in the test report together with any data and artifact (for example, a screenshot or video) associated with the commands executed by the step. Identifying the steps is part of the ReportiumClient stepStart() method, and attaching a result for the step is part of the stepEnd() method.