ParaView 2.4.x User Testing

Overview

This document describes the ParaView User Testing plan.

Users

We have also identified as set of users who we have or will ask to participate in user testing. We specifically wish to test ParaView on SNL DART users in both SNL/CA and SNL/NM, including Bruce Kistler (CA), Dan Kletzli (CA), Nathan Spencer (CA), Jay Dike (CA), Michael Pasik (NM), Tre ` Shelton (NM), Michael Wong (NM), Erik Strack, Rebecca Brannon, and Allen Robinson.

Use Cases

In order to structure our user testing, we have identified a set of ParaView Use Cases submitted by some of our users. Based on this preliminary survey, we feel the following ParaView use cases would be a good subset for user testing:

• Color the mesh by scalar variables including derived variables
• Computer new variables from output variable
• Produce a plane clip through a 3D mesh
• Have the profile plots update automatically when you change time step
• Provide tech annotations including time annotations
• Provide a geometry display tool for displaying interactive flipbook animations on a desktop or multi-panel display wall
• Load all sidesets in a Genesis file
• Control the visibility of individual sidesets
• Discern the identiy of sidesets
• Change the display of sidesets to surface, wireframe, and hidden line representations
• Probe coordinate and nonde/element numbers
• Report the closest node/elemtn numbers to an aribtrary user-specified location
• Automate probing
• Given a node number, find out the elements that include it
• Visualize a vector field
• Create a derived variable
• Produce an XY plot
• Export extracted XY data in a CSV file
• Produce an image/screenshot