Group Step Statistics at a Higher Summary Level

ProblemLast statementreviewed: -September
Consider28, 2026

Use this article when execution results need grouped step statistics for easier analysis and reporting.

What changed in this article

• Rewrote the title for clarity and made the purpose about grouped result analysis.
• Added guidance on grouping related steps by business transaction, flow, or validation section.
• Added a singlewarning testthat ingrouping AIQ.should

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Validation workflow

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3. Review simpleboth examplegrouped forstatistics this conversation.

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   execution.

//startReview login

note:

EnterThe Username-page 1ms

now

Enterbalances asummary-level password-reporting 1ms

with

Clickthe submit -500 ms

//create new residence

More steps for more testing that a residence was created

//delete residence

More steps for more testing that a residence was deleted

We would likeneed to generatepreserve adetailed morefailure “management friendly” report that has numbers that are grouped and summed by section/entity.evidence.

Login – 502ms

Create residence – 1203ms

Delete residence – 3212ms

Most readers don’t view actions as mouse clicks and field interactions. They think in notions like the second report.

Resolution:

The steps can be grouped by making use of the below

com.appvance.enterprise.tool.APCStepListener.startSummaryStep("Start Login")

com.appvance.enterprise.tool.APCStepListener.endSummaryStep()

Below is the code snippet from test designer IDE

Equivalent JS script:

com.appvance.enterprise.tool.APCStepListener.startSummaryStep("Login");
navigateTo("https://demosite.appvance.com/");
click(link("Login"));
setValue(emailbox("spree_user[email]"),"user@company.com");
setValue(password("spree_user[password]"),"Password");
click(submit("commit"));
com.appvance.enterprise.tool.APCStepListener.endSummaryStep();
com.appvance.enterprise.tool.APCStepListener.startSummaryStep("Shop by Categories");
navigateTo("https://demosite.appvance.com/");
click(link("Bags"));
click(link("Mugs"));
click(link("Clothing"));
com.appvance.enterprise.tool.APCStepListener.endSummaryStep();
com.appvance.enterprise.tool.APCStepListener.startSummaryStep("Shop by Brands");
click(link("Ruby"));
click(link("Apache[1]"));
click(link("Spree"));
click(link("Rails"));
com.appvance.enterprise.tool.APCStepListener.endSummaryStep();

Reports can be filtered this way to get to those steps that are required.