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6 Debugging Test Problems
There are a number of reasons that tests can fail to execute properly. This chapter provides some approaches for dealing with these failures. This chapter includes the following topics: * link:#GBFYP[Overview] * link:#GBFVF[Test Tree] * link:#GBFWI[Folder Information] * link:#GBFVP[Test Information] * link:#GBFVZ[Report Files] * link:#GBFYF[Configuration Failures] [[GBFYP]][[overview]] 6.1 Overview ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The goal of a test run is for all tests in the test suite that are not filtered out to have passing results. If the root test suite folder contains tests with errors or failing results, you must troubleshoot and correct the cause to satisfactorily complete the test run. If a large number of tests failed, you should read link:#GBFYF[Configuration Failures] to see if a configuration issue is the cause of the failures. [[GBFYF]][[configuration-failures]] 6.2 Configuration Failures ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Configuration failures are easily recognized because many tests fail the same way. When all your tests begin to fail, you may want to stop the run immediately and start viewing individual test output. link:debug-tips.inc[role=include]