GNOME Calculator test plan

Test cases for Gnome Calculator

Activities integration

This test will check that mathematical operations can be previewed in the Gnome Activities overview

• Open Activities with the “Meta” key, or by clicking the button in the top-left corner of the desktop

• Type a mathematical expression, such as 7+2

  • A result entry is shown with 7+2 = 9

Opening and closing

This test will check that Gnome Calculator can be opened either from a terminal window or from the applications menu, and shutdown

• Open a terminal window, type gnome-calculator at the prompt and hit the “Enter” key

  • Calculator opens

• Click the top right “X” of the window’s title bar to close the application

  • Calculator closes

• Open Gnome Calculator from your FAMILY menu

  • Calculator opens

Menu options

This test will check that Gnome Calculator’s Application menu options work as expected

• Navigate to Mode -> Basic

  • Calculator’s GUI changes to provide buttons suitable for basic equations

  • Equations are entered in standard mathematical form. For example to add 7 and 2 enter the following: 7+2

• Navigate to Mode -> Advanced

  • Calculator’s GUI changes to provide buttons suitable for advanced mathematics such as Trigonometry

  • Trigonometry calculations can be performed using the sin, cos, and tan functions. For example sin 45

• Navigate to Mode -> Financial

  • Calculator’s GUI changes to provide buttons suitable for financial equations

  • Financial functions cannot be performed using the keyboard and the following buttons are available: Ctrm, Ddb, Fv, Gpm, Pmt, Pv, Rate, Sln, Syd and Term

• Navigate to Mode -> Programming

  • Calculator’s GUI changes to provide buttons suitable for computer programmers

  • When in programming mode there is a drop down menu for binary (Ctrl + B keys), octal (Ctrl + O keys) and hexadecimal (Ctrl + H keys) and the ‘á’ button opens a dialogue to convert characters to character codes

• From the Hamburger menu select one of the given options for ‘Number format’

  • The format used to display results change accordingly to the selection made

• From the Hamburger menu navigate to Preferences

  • Preferences dialogue window opens

• Decrease/increase the value of decimal places to show

  • The number of decimal places, if trailing zeroes and if thousands separators are shown, change accordingly

• Tick the ‘Trailing zeroes’ option

  • The format used to display results shows trailing zeroes

• Tick the ‘Thousands separators’ option

  • The format used to display results shows digit grouping

• Click the ‘Angle units’ drop-down list and select one of the given options

  • The unit used to display results, when performing trigonometry calculations, change accordingly to the selection made

• Click the ‘Word size’ drop-down list and select one of the given options

  • The results when performing boolean algebra calculations, using the AND, OR and XOR operators, change accordingly to the selection made

• From the Hamburger menu navigate to About Calculator

  • A dialogue window opens and the “Credits” and “Legal” buttons correctly display the associated information

• From the Hamburger menu navigate to Contents

  • Calculator Help dialogue window opens

What could go wrong

Gnome Calculator provides a shell plugin to preview mathematical expressions in the Activities overview search bar.

If there is a bug in the plugin, the shell might become unresponsive or consume a high amount of CPU resources.