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[Ara Pulido <ara.pulido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/01/15 13:03, Maciej Kisielewski 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.

I think we can go with 1 to start, as it is the simplest and the less
confusing to begin with.

Once we have users, if they get confused by progress in within jobs, we
could reconsider.

Thanks,
Ara.

> 
> 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
> 
>