Online User's Guide

The harness also provides an online version of the User's Guide. The online version can either be displayed without starting the harness or from inside the GUI. The online User's Guide merges all of the following PDF User's Guides into one document:

Throughout the online version, the The following text is a note  icon is used to identify additional information that might be required to fully understand a topic. In the PDF format, this information is presented in the form of notes.

The following sections describe the different actions used to display the online version of the User's Guide and other online documentation.

Accessing Online Documentation

The harness enables you to display the User's Guide and other forms on online documentation without starting the GUI. The viewer is provided by the harness and requires no additional software. To display the online User's Guide, type the following command from the directory containing the javatest.jar file:

java -jar javatest.jar -onlinehelp

You can also display the User's Guide and other forms on online documentation inside the GUI. The following table describes user actions in the GUI that display the User's Guide and other information about the harness.

Action Description
F1 key Press the F1 key to display information about the window that has keyboard focus.

You must establish keyboard focus in a window before pressing the F1 key. To establish focus, you might have to highlight something in the window.

Help menu

The Help menu lists the following types of online documentation:

  • Information for the window that has focus. To display information for the window that has focus (such as the Test Manager window), choose window_name from the menu.
  • Information for the harness. To display the User's Guide for the harness, choose JavaTest Harness Online Help from the menu.
  • Optional information (such as, users' guide and release notes) provided by the test suite.
  • Information consists of information about the harness and the virtual machine. This information is collected and provided by the harness.
Help buttons Click the Help button in a dialog box for information about how to use that dialog box.