Etherscan is a useful third party tool that can be used to confirm testnet transactions.
The following is a good general introduction to etherscan.io. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yAxcKabNNM
https://ropsten.etherscan.io/ is the version for the Ropsten testnet.
Transaction Receipt Event Logs are known as events.
Ethereum smart contract Events act as logs during transaction execution. Etherscan has a helpful tab with Event data (see below).
The following is an example of a Stow event recorded in etherscan.
