CLIF is a Load Injection Framework
Presentation
The CLIF reporting tool allows to create custom reports after a CLIF test has been executed and the generated data have been collected.
This reporting tool is based on BIRT. This point will be developed in the next part.
Report Design Perspective
You can choose the Report Design Perspective in the Window menu.
Window > Open Perspective > ...
As you can see, the Report Design Perspective is composed of four parts:
- editor: allows to obtain different views of your report (Layout, Master Page, XML Source...)
- top-left views: Palette, Data Explorer, Library Exlporer
- bottom-left views: Navigator, Outline
- bottom-right view: Properties

Based on BIRT
CLIF Reporting tool is based on BIRT. So, to create a CLIF report, you must use BIRT user interface.
BIRT is an Eclipse-based open source reporting system. BIRT means "Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project".
Web page of BIRT: http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/.
To learn more about BIRT, please click on this link http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/tutorial/.
CLIF data access
To obtain an access to CLIF data, you must create a Data Source and a Data Set.
Here you can see 2 important views for data access in the Report Design Perspective.
The first is a global view of report and the second is a specific data explorer view.
More details to create CLIF data access are given in next parts.