Configuring All Values

The Configuration Editor: All Values view consists of a menu bar and three panes:

The Configuration Editor: All Values view

Using the Configuration Editor: All Values View

Use the All Values view to determine the characteristics of the test environment for your product -- these characteristics are required by the JavaTest harness in order to run the test suite.

You can use the All Values view to:

Create or Edit a Configuration
Search an Interview
Save an Interview

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If the JavaTest harness displays the Standard Values view, choose View > All Values from the configuration editor menu bar.

Create or Edit a Configuration

To create a new configuration for the test run do one of the following:

The JavaTest harness opens an empty configuration editor for you.

To edit the current configuration do one of the following:

The JavaTest harness opens the current configuration in the configuration editor.

Questions appear in the main text area of the editor (the Question Pane). Answer the questions by using controls such as text boxes, radio buttons, or combo boxes located beneath the question. After you answer each question, click the Next button to proceed to the next question.

If you are editing a configuration you can also search the interview for specific characters or character strings in interview titles, questions, and answers. See Searching the Interview for a description.

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Some "questions" provide information and do not require an answer. In these cases, click the Next button to proceed to the next question.

You can go backward and forward to any question to review or change your answer by doing one of the following:

As you move backward and forward, answers to questions you previously answered are preserved (until you change them).

After you complete the interview, click the Done button to save the interview.

Searching the Interview

When editing a configuration, you can search for a string of characters in interview titles, questions, and answers. The search functionality enables you to easily find answers that you want to change.

To find a character string in an interview, use the Search > Find menu item to open the Find Question dialog box.

Refer to the Find Question dialog box for a detailed description.

Saving the Interview

At any point in the interview you can use the File > Save As, or File > Save menu items to save your answers and your position in the interview. If you are using different configurations to run a test suite, you can save each interview using different file names. See Working with Multiple Configurations for more information.

Using the Menus

The Configuration Editor: All Values View provides the following menus that you can use to manage the configuration interview as well as change Configuration Editor views.

File Menu

The File menu contains items to open/save interview files and a log file.

Menu Items Description
New Configuration Clears the current interview and starts a new interview from the beginning.
Load Opens and uses a previously saved interview.
Save Saves the current interview.

You can choose File > Save at any point in the interview to save your answers and your position in the interview. If the configuration is new, the editor opens the file chooser for you to use in naming and saving the interview. If you do not provide the .jti extension when you name the file, the editor adds the extension when it saves the file.

Save As Activates a file chooser dialog box that you can use to choose a file in which save the current interview.

You can use the File > Save As command at any point in the interview to save your answers and your position in the interview. If you do not provide the .jti extension when you name the file, the editor adds the extension when it saves the file. When the editor makes that the default interview.

Revert Discards your changes to the configuration and restores the last saved version of the current interview.
Close Closes the configuration editor.

Search Menu

Use the Search menu items to find the occurrence in an interview of a specific character string. When troubleshooting a test run, you can use the Search menu to quickly locate a question whose answer needs to be changed.

Menu Items Description
Find Opens the Find Question dialog box to search for a string:
  • In question titles
  • In question text
  • In your answers
  • Anywhere (all of the above)
Find Next Repeats the previous search.

View Menu

Use the View menu to display the All Values view or the Standard Values view of the Configuration Editor. The More Info panels can also be hidden or displayed.

Help Menu

Use the Help menu to display the online help for the All Values view, the Standard Values view, and the Configuration Editor.

Using the All Values View Panes

The Configuration Editor: All Values View provides the following panes that you can use to manage and view the configuration interview.

Index Pane

The Index pane lists the titles of the questions you have answered, are currently answering, or that the editor determines may need to be answered. The current question is highlighted.

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The title is also displayed at the top of the question pane when you are answering a question.

You can click on any question in the list to make it the current question. If you click on a question the list itself does not change; but, if you change an answer that alters your configuration options in the interview, the editor updates the list to reflect the change. You can also use the buttons at the bottom of the Question Pane to navigate through the interview. See Question Pane below for a description of the navigation buttons.

Answers to previously answered questions are always saved until you change them, even if the question does not currently appear in the list.

Question Pane

Interview questions appear in the main text area of the editor. You answer the questions using controls such as text boxes, radio buttons, or combo boxes located beneath the question. After you answer each question, click The Configuration Editor Next button   at the bottom of the panel to proceed to the next question.

The buttons at the bottom of the Question pane control the following editor functions:
Button Description
The Configuration Editor Back button Returns to the previous question.
The Configuration Editor Final button Advances as far as possible through the interview.
The Configuration Editor Next button Proceeds to the next question.
The Configuration Editor Done button Saves your interview answers and exits the editor.

For more information about using the Question pane to fill out the interview see Create or Edit a Configuration.

More Info Pane

The More Info pane provides you with additional information about each question, such as:

To hide or expose the More Info pane choose View > More Info from the menu bar. By default, the More Info pane is exposed.

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