JavaTest Online Help

JavaTest online help describes how to use the JavaTest harness to run test suites and evaluate test results. This page describes how to access online help and how to navigate through the help topics to find the information you want.

The JavaTest HTML online help is also provided in PDF format as the JavaTest User's Guide, available in your TCK installation directory at:

doc/javatest/javatest.pdf

The User's Guide is provided in PDF format so that you can use an appropriate viewer, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe at www.adobe.com, to easily view and print the contents of the online help without starting the JavaTest harness.

Accessing Help

You can get help and information about the JavaTest harness in the following ways:

Action Description
F1 key Press the F1 key to see information about the JavaTest window that has keyboard focus.
The following text is a note
It is very important to establish keyboard focus in a window before pressing the F1 key. In some cases you may have to highlight something in the window in order to establish focus.
Help menu Choose Help > Help to start the Help viewer with this page displayed. Use the navigators in the left pane to locate information.
Help buttons Click the Help button in a dialog box for information about how to use that dialog box

You can also display online help without starting the JavaTest harness. Include the path of the directory [jt_dir] where the javatest.jar file is installed. The javatest.jar file is usually installed in the TCK lib directory when the JavaTest harness bundled with a TCK. Type the following at a system prompt:

java -jar [jt_dir]/javatest.jar -onlineHelp

Navigation

The left pane of the help viewer contains four tabs that can help you navigate through the help information:

Icon Description
Table of contents icon Table of contents. Topics are organized by task (where possible). Topics displayed in the right pane are highlighted in the table of contents.
Keyword index icon Keyword index. Index entries are listed in alphabetical order. To search for entries, enter a string of characters in the Find field and press Return -- if the string is found in the index it is highlighted (press Return again to repeat the search).
Glossary icon Glossary. Glossary entries are listed in alphabetical order. You can scroll through the list or search for a term. To search for a term, enter a string of characters in the Find field and press Return -- if the term is found in the glossary it is highlighted in the list and its definition is displayed. Press Return to repeat the search.
Full-text search icon Full-text search. Type a natural language phrase in the Find field and press return. A ranked list of topics are returned with the following information:
  • The circle in the first column indicates the ranking of the matches for that topic. The more filled-in the circle is, the higher the ranking. There are five possible rankings (from highest to lowest): Ranking of the matches icon
  • The number in the second column indicates the number of times the query was matched in the listed topic.
  • The title of the topic in which matches are found is listed as it appears in the table of contents.

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