5.5.2. The Properties View
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### 5.5.2. The Properties View

The Properties View is in the upper right-hand corner of each perspective. The Properties View shows details about the selected item in a browser or editor.

If you select something from a browser, you can see its details in the Properties View, but you can’t edit them. You can only edit details from within an editor. Read-only fields in the Properties View have a lock icon at their left-hand side.

Test Suite details

If you select a Test Suite, you will see the following:

- The Test Suite name.

- Any comments for the Test Suite.

- The step delay for this Test Suite.

- The name of the AUT this Test Suite uses.

- The reentry properties for the default Event Handlers.

Test Case details

If you select a Test Case, the Properties View shows the following:

- The Test Case name.

- Any comments for the Test Case.

- The data source details for this Test Case

- Any parameters/parameter values if references have been used in the Test Case.

- When selecting a reference to a Test Case the Properties View will have an additional field for a parameter called "JUnitTestSuite" with the default value "false".

  Selecting "true" for this will cause the refenced Test Case to be used a Test Suite for the generation of the lightweight JUnit report.

  Any children of a referenced Test Case with the paramter JUnitTestSutie with the value "true" will be treated as Test Cases regardless of the value of the JUnitTestSuite parameter they may have.

Test Step details

If you select a Test Step, you will see the following:

- The Test Step name.

- Any comments for this Test Step.

- Details about the component in the Test Step:

  - The component type.

  - The component name (given by you).

- Details about the action in the Test Step.

- Details about the parameters in the Test Step. For each parameter you will see:

  - The parameter name.

  - The parameter type (e.g. if it is an integer, a string etc).

  - The parameter value (either a concrete value or a reference).

Test result details

If you select an item from the Test Result View, you will see the following:

- The result details:

  - The name of the item.

  - What type of item it is.

  - Any comments for the item.

- The test result – if it passed or failed.

- For Test Steps, you can also see the component, action and parameter details. If the Test Step failed, you can also see the error details.

- For Event Handlers, you can see the type of Event Handler it was, and what the reentry property was.

Icons in the Properties View

When the Properties View contains data (i.e. a filled-in parameter value field), there are certain icons to help you understand the data.

- Values which are the same as in the original specification display a small gray diamond to the left of the field.

- Values which have been overwritten at a place of reuse show a small yellow diamond .

To simplify navigation, the toolbar of the Properties View contains the Jump to Central Test Data Set command. If the currently selected parameter references a central data set through a getCentralTestDataSetValue function call (see in Section 3.14.6, “Using functions as data for Test Cases”) then this command tries to identify the data set and opens its Editor. In case the referenced row and cell are identifiable, these are automatically selected in the Data Sets View (Section 5.5.3, “The Data Sets View”).