Bug 178483

Summary:

[JUnit] Warnings on the "New JUnit Test Case" dialog are not obvious enough

Product:

[Eclipse Project] JDT

Reporter:

Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton>

Component:

Assignee:

JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

Version:

3.3

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

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Description	Flags
New JUnit Test Case dialog	none
Another example	none

Description Wayne Beaton

2007-03-20 23:56:38 EDT

Perhaps it's just my little brain, but...

On the "New JUnit Test Case" dialog, warnings are displayed at the bottom of the dialog and I tend to miss (i.e. not see) them.

For example, the warning that "JUnit 4 requires a Java 5 project" is pretty easy to miss (I'll attach a screenshot).

Shouldn't these warnings be indicated at the top of the dialog?

Comment 1 Wayne Beaton

2007-03-20 23:58:09 EDT

Created attachment 61501 [details]
New JUnit Test Case dialog

In this screenshot, the warning that the JRE version is incorrect is shown at the bottom. I don't always see this warning.

Comment 2 Wayne Beaton

2007-03-21 00:01:06 EDT

Created attachment 61502 [details]
Another example

Again, the warning that JUnit is not on the classpath is not obvious. The warning at the top that the "Superclass does not exist." leads me to look around for a solution, but it would be more helpful if the warning shown below replaced what is shown at the top.

I'm also not sure that I'm comfortable with the use of a hyperlink in this particular case, but I think that's a whole different discussion.

Comment 3 Martin Aeschlimann

2007-03-21 07:59:20 EDT

Agreed, we should go back to the old solution with the dialog before the wizard. But to do this correctly we should allow other plugins to hook in so PDE can suggest to add a dependency to the org.junit plug-in.