Are these symbols intuitive?

[paul_cardinale]

I'm using custom symbols in a tree of test steps.  They seem intuitive to me, but are there meanings obvious to others?

Take a look at this image:

Please tell me what you think the symbols mean.

[Jacobson-ni]

Sometimes context can help out a lot but here are a few guesses.

1. Start, Go, Execute
2. Stop, Abort
3. Step Over, Skip Next (possibly conditional)
4. Step Into, Go To, Execute Next (possibly conditional)
5. While, Loop
6. While True
7. While False, Break

At a higher level, I would also expect to be able to group the steps into like functionality. The groups would be {1,2}, {3,4} and {5,6,7} 

[BertMcMahan]

I'd like to know some context as well, but as I see them:

1- Start/Run

2- Stop or maybe Record something

3- Skip

4- Go into step/go to other step?

5- Display arbitrary message to user

6- Display "Success" message to user

7- Display "Error" message to user

[Frozen]

If they are "symbols in a tree of test steps"

1) Current step

2) Break-point or Stop-here

3) Step over (maybe skip?)

4) Step into OR Run to here

5) Loop forever

6) Loop until pass

7) Loop until fail

[BertMcMahan]

Dangit, can't edit my post- I agree with the other two replies, the last three are loops of some kind. I thought the tiny "loop" symbol was the "dialog box" symbol but I wasn't looking closely enough 🙄

[paul_cardinale]

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@BertMcMahan wrote:

Dangit, can't edit my post- I agree with the other two replies, the last three are loops of some kind. I thought the tiny "loop" symbol was the "dialog box" symbol but I wasn't looking closely enough 🙄

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Maybe the little loops should be a darker color so it's more clear what they are. 

Note that 2 out of 3 of my cow-orkers think that symbol means 'Loop Until Pass'; 1 of 3 think it means 'Loop While Pass'..

[Frozen]

#6  could be "loop until pass"... knowing operators, all steps would be set to this mode. 😀

[billko]

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@Jacobson-ni wrote:

Sometimes context can help out a lot but here are a few guesses.

1. Start, Go, Execute
2. Stop, Abort
3. Step Over, Skip Next (possibly conditional)
4. Step Into, Go To, Execute Next (possibly conditional)
5. While, Loop
6. While True
7. While False, Break

At a higher level, I would also expect to be able to group the steps into like functionality. The groups would be {1,2}, {3,4} and {5,6,7} 

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That's exactly how I saw it, too.

[paul_cardinale]

Here's my 2nd iteration, along with the intended meanings:

[billko]

I still have an issue with the skip step.  In my mind, it's a tie between "skip" and "step over" - but I have absolutely no idea how to remedy that.  Every symbol I can think of that fits one will fit the other as well.  (Except, of course, text that says "skip".)

Off-topic:

Click on the picture to open it in the forum viewer.  What the heck is THAT???  Too small for me to read, but is that Korean?  And no matter what it is, why doesn't it match what is embedded in the post???

I know what it is - it's a low-res picture and the text is so badly rendered when on a dark background that it takes quite some squinting to realize they are, in fact, letters.