ETA User Interface Prototype and Walkthrough

Part II: Testing a Class

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1) Main screen - class has been loaded and instantiated, objects have been created and added to the Object Pool under the Parameter Objects tab

User selects 'intFive' as a parameter for the 'makeFoo' method

3) User presses 'makeFoo' method button to invoke that method with 'intFive' as a parameter.
User clicks on 'returned objects' tab of object pool to examine the Foo object returned by 'makeFoo'

4) User clicks on the 'Inspect...' button for the Foo returned from Foo.makeFoo(int) to inspect it

An 'object inspector' modal dialog pops up. The dialog contains information about the returned object's fields. Everything presented in the 'object inspector' dialog is read-only.

User presses Close

5) User is returned to main screen
User scrolls through public methods of Foo and finds the 'setX' method
User types a '10' in the Combo Box for setX's int parameter and presses enter

A new Test Data Item is created for the user of type int and with value 10. This newly created int becomes the selected int in the Combo Box

7) User clicks on the 'setX' button to invoke the method.

Note that the output of a System.out.println call in the setX method is displayed in the output tab of the Status Panel

8) User clicks on 'x' button in fields panel to view x's value

A new test data item of x's type is added to the 'Test Data Items' tab of the object pool. The name of this item is FooX and its value is 10 (the value of x at this point). This new item becomes the selected item of x's value combo box.

9) User clicks on 'Inspect...' button of tempFoo in the object pool

An 'Object Inspector' modal dialog pops up. Unlike object inspector dialogs invoked from the Returned Objects tab, this dialog lets the user change the values of the fields of the object being inspected.

User sets the values of the x, y, and z fields of tempFoo by selecting one of the ints in the combo boxes and presses OK

9) User is returned to the main screen

User invokes 'setFoo(Foo)' method of Foo, selecting 'tempFoo' as the parameter for the method
User clicks on the x, y, z buttons to view the effects of the setFoo(int) method

10) User clicks on 'Returned Objects' tab, invokes getX, getY, getZ methods one after the other

User makes a mental note to himself to fix the getY() function so that it returns the correct value of 'y'

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