ETA User Interface Prototype and Walkthrough

Part I: Loading a Class, Creating Parameter Objects

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1) initial screen - no classes loaded, everything but file menu is disabled

2) User clicks on File menu, selects 'Open Class...'

3) 'Open Class' Modal dialog appears.

User types in path of class to test and presses OK

4) Program returns to main screen. The 'Methods' panel is filled out with a tabbed panel whose tabs hold information on function names and return types of all classes in the loaded class' hierarchy. The 'Fields' panel is filled out with a tabbed panel whose tabs hold information on field names and data types of all classes in the loaded class' hierarchy. The user can look through all the class tabs and visibility (public, protected, private) tabs to see the 'structure' of the loaded class, but the buttons in the Methods and Fields 'Name' Columns are still disabled. Also, the buttons in the object pool panel become enabled.

User selects Foo's 'protected' tab to look at what fields the class has that are protected

5) User decides to create some objects to pass as parameters to Foo's different methods.
User clicks on 'New Test Data Item...' button in the 'Test Data Item' Tab of the 'Object Pool' panel and the 'New Test Data Item - Select Type' modal dialog pops up.

User wants to create an int. User selects 'primitive type' radio button and presses OK

'New Test Data Item - Select Type' dialog disappears and 'New Test Data Item - Primitive Type' dialog appears.
User selects 'int' from the 'Type' combo box, types in 5 in the 'Value' textfield, names the int 'intFive' in the 'Test Data Item Name' text field, and presses OK

The user is returned to the main screen and decides to create another object to pass as a parameter. User presses 'New Test Data Item...' button again

User selects "Derived from 'Object'" from the combo box and presses OK

'New Test Data Item - Select Type' dialog disappears and 'New Test Data Item - Object Type Class Path' dialog appears
User types in the class path of the new data item he wants to create and Presses OK

'New Test Data Item - Object Type Class Path' dialog disappears and 'New Test Data Item - Object Type Constructor' dialog appears
User selects radio button next to the constructor he wants to use to instantiate the new test data item
User sets the parameters for the constructor, names the new test data item to 'tempFoo' and presses OK

6) Program returns to main screen. The Object Pool panel's 'Test Data Items' Tab is populated with the objects that the user has created.

7) User selects 'Instantiate Main Test Class...' from test menu

'Instantiate Class' modal dialog pops up. User picks a constructor to instantiate the loaded class with, types in 'my foo' in the Test Data Item Name field, and presses OK

8) User is returned to the main screen. The Methods, Fields, and Output panels become live (all buttons are enabled) and a reference to the newly instantiated "my foo" is added to the Test Data Items tab of the Object Pool

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