Dacris Benchmarks: Test PC Performance

To generate a complete set of reports (XML, HTML, CSV), go to Tools - Generate Reports.

Here is a description of the directory structure:

• Overview: This corresponds to the Overview tab and provides a comparison report (multiple systems compared in one report).
  • Report.html: The report, in HTML format.
  • Report.csv: The report, in CSV format.
• System Information: This corresponds to the System Information tab and provides one system information report for each system.
  • SystemName.html: The report, in HTML format, for a particular system.
• System Performance: This corresponds to the System Grade tab and provides one system performance report for each system.
  • SystemName.html: The report, in HTML format, for a particular system.
  • SystemName.csv: The report, in CSV format, for a particular system.
• Report.xml: This is the main XML report containing all systems and all data. All other reports were generated by applying XSLs to this XML file.

To build a custom report, all you have to do is apply an XSL transform to Report.xml.

The first step, therefore, is to familiarize yourself with the XML structure for Report.xml. Then, you can look at XSL stylesheets in the Dacris Benchmarks folder (XSLT subfolder) to see how we built our reports, and use those stylesheets as examples.

In the XML file, you will notice that systems are called Baselines. This is a term that has carried over from Dacris Benchmarks 5.0 & earlier. We no longer use it in the UI, but it still exists at the code level.

Note: The baseline format is likely to change with each new version of Dacris Benchmarks. However, we will strive to always allow you to include all baselines, from any version of Dacris Benchmarks, in the report.

If you come up with a really cool report style that you think should be included with Dacris Benchmarks, by all means feel free to contact us.