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[Brendan Donegan <brendan.donegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think 1 is the least confusing for the user - if the meaning of the
progress bar keeps changing within the run it might cause some uncertainty
about what is actually happening. 2-alt might be okay though, if a bit
harder to implement. Anyway I think it's more meaningful for the test to
provide information about it's progress in the form of console output
rather than just updating a progress bar.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Maciej Kisielewski <
maciej.kisielewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> There was a short discussion on IRC few days ago about how should we
> handle progress bar in the header for QML-native tests in Checkbox-Touch.
>
> I want to gather your opinion about the subject.
>
> Let's consider case when we have 10 jobs. Progress bar during 5th job
> should
> look similar to this:
> [####|     ] 5/10
>
> If we let native tests display progress bar in header we have following
> options:
>
> 1. Let it display progress of going through the list of jobs.
>
> 2. Let it display progress of within the job (current step)
>    For instance, consider having a job checking if gyroscope sensor works
> ok.
>    One of the steps would be to tilt left, one to tilt right, and so on.
>    Let's assume the job consists of 6 of those steps.
>    In this approach header progress bar would display [###|      ] 3/6 on
> third
>    step, although there are 10 jobs total.
> 2-alt. Let it display progress of current job (internal) as an extension to
>    'ordinary' progress bar. I.e.
>      job: [####|     ] 5/10
>     step: [###|      ] 3/6
> 3. (looney) Let it gather info about steps from all tests, sum them up, and
>    display one progress bar, accounting for all steps. E.g. 10 jobs, 8 of
> them
>    single-step and 2 of them 6-step.:
>     [####|     ] 7/20
>
> This only affects checkbox-touch, as header progress bar is not present in
> other front-ends (yet? ;-)
>
> I personally opt for 1. because it keeps everything straight-forward (for
> user
> and implementation).
>
>
> --
> Have a good one,
> Maciek
>
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