Hi Juergen,
In the example you gave, limit testing, this is something that the Numeric Limit Test that ships with TestStand does with the step decription field. I understand it would be nice to have it show up in the report too, and this is actually easy to do in recent versions of TestStand. You can add an additional result for the step description to your step type which will make it show up in the report. To do this, go to the General tab of the step type properties dialog and click the Advanced button and select the Default Additional Results menu item. In the additional results dialog, click on the button in the upper right hand corner and select "Step Description". This will add an additional result for the step description. One downside to Default Additional Results though is that it will not affect existing steps unless you have the files in which they exist open and check the "Apply Changes in this Dialog to All Loaded Steps of this Type" checkbox on the step type properties dialog box.
In summary, you could do something like the following:
1) Use step description expression to show parameter info the way you'd like.
2) Use an additional result on the step type to show the same, or similar data in the report.
One advantage of 2) above is that the additional result will actually have access to live data at runtime and so can actually show more than the step description does.
Just an idea. For your use case, perhaps edit substeps are a better option.
Hope this helps,
-Doug
