Document for manual testing of GUI

[vvpalav]

This issue is to create documentation for manual testing of UVCDAT gui before release.
Reference: #1214

[vvpalav]

@aashish24 @doutriaux1 I am about to finish this document. I have tested all the plots present in UVCDAT. I need your help to write description of each plot present in our application. Just a line or two about what these plots and subcategories does. Like what is Isofill and what is a_robinson_isofill under isofill. My intention is that, this document could work as a guide for new users of UVCDAT in some way.
Please let me know about this.

[vvpalav]

Hello,

This is the initial draft of the document user or developer can use for testing UVCDAT GUI.
I wanted to add more details, but will need help from everyone to make it more better.
TODO represents things I am not sure of, so someone needs to fill in details there.
As I commented earlier, It is nice if we can put couple of lines of information about each plot and its subcategory. Please let me know if any suggestions.
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ACuiq8tB3RMnZDbS1QaDREUFE/view?usp=sharing

[doutriaux1]

thanks @vvpalav that is very nice! Is there any way we could make this more edit friendly, like put it on some wiki or something?

[vvpalav]

well I was looking for similar option, but I created document locally in my machine. Why don't you download the document and edit it in your machine. Just highlight the changes and send it back to me at vv221@nyu.edu. I will merge changes from everyone and publish final document.

[doutriaux1]

What I don't like about this is that it unnecessarily increases the size of the repo and it is harder to see what changed between version. But I will do like this for now.

[vvpalav]

Thats an interesting point. Well lets make the changes offline for now and publish 1.0 version. meanwhile I will try to find out if we can upload it somewhere online so that we can track changes and everyone can edit the same document.

@williams13 @potter2 @aashish24 @remram44 .. will you please take a look at the document and suggest anything that needs to be add/modify/remove from the doc.

There are couple of sections in the doc where I was not sure how those works, like visualization properties, diagnostics, animation, climate data tools etc. we need to complete this sections.

My main intention with this document is to make it a one stop solution for brief testing and a guide for the UVCDAT GUI for new comers or existing developers and users.

[vvpalav]

I have also posted a document containing all the issues/suggestions I come across while testing GUI.
Issue for reference: #1214
Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2ACuiq8tB3Rem9zVWJRenhwMGc/view?usp=sharing

we need to confirm if this issues are valid and then we can start fixing them for 2.3

[doutriaux1]

@vvpalav as far as explaining each a_isofill etc... I think it is worth mentioning that any customized graphic method that the user saves to it's initial.attribute will show up here, so this window can potentially look different for every users (especially ones that have been using UV-CDAT for a while).
We can explain generally what each of these "pre-defined" method do, but the user should understand that these are merely "customized" plots with various values pre-set for them.

[vvpalav]

@doutriaux1 I am going to create Wiki Page named "Manual Testing of UVCDAT using GUI" and put the content of the document inside it. As I said earlier, I think there are still some parts where we need inputs from other users. I'll let you know once page is ready.

[remram44]

@hgohil2805 is checking whether we can automatically test this scenario using a tool like Sikuli -- the idea would be to update both the scenario on the wiki page and the Sikuli script as new features are added