Include and mandatory-include behaviour in test plans

[Pierre Equoy]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Maciej Kisielewski <
maciej.kisielewski at canonical.com> wrote:

> With the advent of a field specifying mandatory jobs for test plan units
> (which I will call 'mandatory-include' from now on), there are a few design
> decisions we have to make.
>
> If you have better alternatives for my approach below, please, do share :-)
>
> As the job may be present in the 'include' and/or 'mandatory-include'
> fields, we have 4 scenarios. This is my proposed behaviour for them:
>
> 1) not included, not mandatory-included
>
> Job shouldn't be available on job-selection screen. Job should never run.
> Note that if the job is required by other job it may become visible and,
> when selected, might be run.
>
> 2) included, not mandatory-included
>
> Job should be available on job-selection screen, user should be able to
> select and deselect it. It should be run only when selected or required by
> other jobs.
>
> 3) not included, mandatory-included
>
> Job should not be listed in job-selection screen and it should ALWAYS run.
>
> 4) included and mandatory-included
>
> Job should be listed in job-selection screen, but user should not be able
> to deselect it. It should always run.
> Jobs that are not deselectable should be rendered differently to cue the
> user (e.g. greyed-out)
>


Is it possible to have a "greyed-out" look in checkbox-cli?



>
> As an alternative, 3) could behave like 4) with advice from validators,
> that when placed in 'mandatory-include' the job doesn't have to be
> specified in the  'include'.
>
> What do you think?
>

I think it's better if the tester is always aware of what's being run, so 3
and 4 should behave the same (i.e. be showed during job selection process,
even if tester cannot interact with it).


Thanks!


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Pierre Equoy
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