Projects/Edu/KStars/QA List 2.6.0

 

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List of expected behaviors for KStars 2.6.0

Please test these behaviors, and indicate whether it works correctly or not. Once a behavior has been tested, attach one of the following codes to the beginning of the line to indicate its status.

• No symbol or Black: behavior not yet tested
• * or Red: behavior causes KStars to crash
• X or Orange: behavior is broken
• B or Yellow: behavior sort-of works, or is buggy
• U or Cyan: Usability issue
• C or Green: behavior works correctly

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Mouse Navigation

• Moving the mouse shows the current sky coordinates of the mouse in the statusbar. [1]
• Clicking the mouse identifies the nearest object in the statusbar; the object's "long name" is shown
• Hovering the mouse attaches a temporary label to the nearest object.
• Hover labels fade out when the mouse moves
• Hover labels only appear when the map is not in motion
• Double-clicking attaches a label to the nearest object, centers it in the display, and engages tracking. [2]
• The double-click label is removed when the object is no longer centered
• Click-and-drag moves the map such that the cursor remains roughly in the same place in the sky.
• Dragging the sky disengages tracking
• Dragging the sky to one of the poles does not cause odd behavior
• Click-and-drag with Ctrl pressed draws a rectangle in the map that defines a new area to be displayed when the mouse button is released [12]
• Click-and-drag with the middle mouse button zooms in and out according to the vertical motion of the mouse
• Scrolling the mouse wheel zooms in and out.
• Scrolling the mouse wheel while holding down Shift / Ctrl decreases the amount of zooming in / out.
• Right-click opens a context-sensitive popup menu for the object nearest the mouse cursor. [1]

Keyboard commands

• Arrow keys: scroll the display. Holding Shift increases the speed
• [0-9] center on a major solar system body (0 is the sun, 3 is the moon; the rest are planets in order from Mercury to Pluto)
• [<,>] Advance clock forward/backward by one time step (clock will be paused if it isn't already) [3]

Object Actions:

• C: Track object
• D: Open the Details window
• L: Attach/Remove the label
• O: Add object to Observing List
• T: Attach/remove trail (solar system only)
• Pressing Shift targets action on the focused object, rather than the clicked object

Menu functions and keyboard shortcuts

If a menu action opens a window, the window's behavior is listed elsewhere. Just check to see if it opens here.

File Menu

• Download new data [Ctrl+D]
• Save Sky image [Ctrl+I]
• Run script [Ctrl+R]
• Print [Ctrl+P] (print dialog opens)
• Quit [Ctrl+Q]

Time Menu

• Set time to now [Ctrl+E]
• Set time [Ctrl+S]
• Start/Stop clock

Pointing Menu

• Zenith [Z]
• North [N]
• East [E]
• South [S]
• West [W]
• Set focus manually [Ctrl+M]
• Find object [Ctrl+F]
• Engage/Stop tracking [Ctrl+T]

View Menu

• Zoom in [Ctrl++]
• Zoom out [Ctrl+-]
• Default zoom [Ctrl+Z]
• Zoom to angular size [Ctrl+Shift+Z] [4]
• Full-screen mode [Ctrl+Shift+F]
• Horizontal/Equatorial Coordinates [Space]
• Projections sub-menu (test switching only here)

Devices Menu

[NOTE: These features require that KStars be compiled with INDI support]

Telescope wizard

• Help button displays KStars hand book.
• Next/Back buttons work.
• Listed telescopes reflect system + user added telescopes.
• Setting Time and Location open the appropriate dialog boxes and perform the correct time or location updates.
• Setting port name initiate a scan for that specific port, whereas leaving the port empty initiates a complete auto port scan. Both actions can be canceled at any time.
• Automatic port scan.

Telescope properties

• Telescope list reflect system & user added telescope.
• Selecting a telescope update all property fields.
• Removing a telescope shows a confirmation box.
• Saving updated properties works.

Capture image sequence

• Capture image sequence is automatically enabled when a new capturing device is connected via INDI.
• Prefix, count, and ISO time stamp is incorporated into the filename when selected.
• Filter selection.

Tools Menu (test opening tools only here)

• Calculator [Ctrl+C]
• Observing List [Ctrl+L]
• AAVSO Light Curves [Ctrl+V]
• Altitude vs. Time [Ctrl+A]
• What's Up Tonight [Ctrl+U]
• Glossary [Ctrl+K] <<disabled>>
• Script Builder [Ctrl+B]
• Solar System [Ctrl+Y]
• Jupiter's Moons [Ctrl+J]

Settings Menu

• Infoboxes Display toggles
• Toolbar display toggles [5]
• Toolbar customization [6]
• Statusbar display toggles [7]
• Color scheme toggles
• Field-of-view (FOV) Symbol selector
• FOV Editor
• Geographic Location [Ctrl+G]
• Configure KStars [8]
• Startup Wizard

Help Menu

• KStars Handbook [F1]
• What's this? [9]
• Report Bug
• About KStars
• About KDE

Toolbars

Main toolbar

• Zoom in/out
• Find object...
• Stop/Start clock [3]
• Timestep widget

View toolbar

• Show stars
• Show deep-sky [10]
• Show solar system
• Show constellation lines
• Show constellation names
• Show constellation boundaries
• Show Milky Way
• Show coordinate grid
• Show opaque ground [11]

Centering and tracking

• Center+Track on object (double-click, popup menu, click then press "C")
• Center+Track on empty sky (double-click, popup menu)
• If requested position moves display below horizon, confirm dialog is shown
• If startup position is below horizon, recenter dialog is shown
• Information in "Focus" InfoBox updates correctly when recentering

Info boxes

• Displayed with semi-transparent backgound
• Highlight color on click
• "Shade" on double-click
• Move on drag
• Collision avoidance works
• "Stick" to screen edges
• Remember position and shade-state on restart

Color schemes

• Show all available schemes, incl. predefined and custom
• All color settings change upon selecting a new scheme
• Color settings persistent on reload
• Custom scheme appears in menu after creating in in the Configure dialog
• Custom scheme is removed from menu if it is removed in the Configure dialog

Dialogs

Download new data

• Dialog displays all available download items (Steinicke NGC catalog, Ephemerides, Messier catalog thumbnails, Thumbnails for details window, updated DST rules)
• Each item gets downloaded and installed correctly

FITS viewer

• File open dialog displays only FITS files.
• FITS image is opened and displayed properly.
• Image coordinates, pixel value, image dimensions, and zoom value are displayed in status bar.
• Undo/Redo work[3]
• Zoom in/out, Default zoom
• Statistics
• FITS header
• Closing without save issues a warning dialog[3]
• Save and Save As work

Histogram tool

• Range of pixel values can be updated with edit boxes or by dragging the blue/red symbols: red symbol not draggable in initial position

Save sky image

• Saves image to file: Doesn't seem to save GIF
• Image matches screen display (without FOV or infobox overlays)

Run script

• Executes the selected script.
• Statusbar messages indicate script is running/finished.

Print

• Prints image of current skymap (without infoboxes or FOV symbols)
• Ask to reset color scheme if background is not white
• Color scheme is properly reset for printing, and reverted afterward

Set time

• Simulation clock is set to selected time
• Selected date displayed properly in calendar widget
• It is not possible to select an invalid date

Set focus manually

• Setting RA/Dec coordinates works
• Setting Az/Alt coordinates works

Find object

• Filter by name works
• Filter by type works
• Highlighted object is centered in map when user hits return or presses Ok
• Dialog message when a match fails; window does not close
• Up/Down arrow keys navigate the list of objects

Zoom to angular size

• Zoom is set to display the angle entered
• Min/max values make sense

FOV symbol editor

• Selected symbol is shown in preview pane
• Creating a new symbol works
• Editing an existing symbol works
• Removing a symbol works (if this symbol is currently in use, what should happen?)

Startup Wizard

• Set Geographic location works
• Download Extra Data works

Image viewer (from popup menu)

• Selected image is shown; window is sized to fit image
• Authorship and copyright in statusbar
• Save button works

Tools

Calculator

Note: changes in the modules are not reflected until the widget loses input focus. This may not be ideal, but doing immediate updates doesn't work. Consider the JD module. Let's say I want to clear the current number and enter a new one. As soon as I delete the text, it would try to process the blank line as a date. Then if I typed a "2", it would try to use that. Basically, there needs to be a way to indicate that you are done editing.

• Julian Day calculator works correctly, both ways.
• Sidereal Time Calculator works correctly, both ways.
• Information displayed in the Almanac seems correct.
• Equinoxes and Solstices displayed are correct
• Equatorial to Galactic Coords conversion works
• Conversion from Equatorial to Horizontal coordinates is accurate[2]
• Horizontal Coordinates UI
• Ecliptic Coordinates tool UI
• Data shown in the ecliptic coordinates tool seems accurate
• Angular distance tool UI works as expected
• Angular distances reported seem accurate
• Geodetic coordinates UI works as expected
• Data displayed by Geodetic coordinates tool seems correct
• LSR Velocity tool UI works as expected
• LSR Velocity tool seems to produce correct results
• Planet Coordinates tool UI behaves as expected
• Planet coordinates shown seem accurate
• Conjunctions tool UI behaves as expected
• Conjunctions tool reports all conjunctions correctly

Observing List

• Removing an object named "star"
• Selecting by magnitude in wizard [count not updated properly]

AAVSO light curves

• Star name and designation lists are synchronized properly.
• Downloading new list from AAVSO updates the stars lists.
• Retrieve Curve buttons downloads and displays the light curve correctly.

What's up tonight

• Almanac data are correct
• Displays objects that are visible on the given date, from the given location
• Changing the Date works, and updates the list of objects and almanac
• Changing the Location works, and updates the list of objects and almanac
• Selecting Evening/Morning/All Night works, and updates the list of objects
• Selected object is displayed in right panel correctly
• The Rise/Set/Transit data are correct
• Center Object button works
• Details button works

Details window

• Displays object information
• Testing Resource links works
• Editing Resource links works
• Removing resource links works
• Interacting with online databases works

Thumbnail Picker

• Displays list of images found via Google image search
• Selecting an image from the list displays it in the viewer
• Editing the image works
• Closing the window places the selected image in the Details window
• KIO jobs are terminated in the console after quitting KStars

Sky Projections

• Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area
• Azimuthal Equidistant
• Orthographic
• Equirectangular [mouse nav broken; arrow keys work]
• Streographic
• Gnomonic [cpu 100% at low zoom, eventually crashes]

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Discovered issues:

Use this section to add issues discovered while testing the program that are not listed above.

• KStars doesn't know my city's coordinates, while Marble does. Could not they share the a common datasheet with cities' positions?

A: Will bring in Marble Widget eventually

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