Each APE component independently provides the option of displaying status forms and logging event information. The logging process simply builds a *.log text file to record the step-by-step progress of your test and the actions of each of the APE components.
Because of the performance impact of logging to disk, the log can be maintained in memory and written either when the scenario is completed or when a predefined maximum log size is reached.
Note APE uses the Windows Notepad program to view the log. In some cases, however, the log file can grow quite large and exceed the capacity of Notepad. If you encounter a message indicating that the file is too large, manually open the file with another viewing program (such as Wordpad), or rerun the tests with less logging information or for a shorter duration.