** Summary changed:

- [FFe] Controls in the test screen are confusing and should be rearranged. 
+ [FFe] [UIFe] Controls in the test screen are confusing and should be 
rearranged.

** Description changed:

  The test screen, which is one of the most important in checkbox, was
  confusing to users we spoke to. A few changes are needed in how the
  controls are arranged:
  
  - The test result buttons should be made into radiobuttons. The user should 
always have to select the test result from the radio buttons (Yes, No, Skip) 
and press Next to jump to the next test. Since some of the tests automatically 
select a radiobutton based on test outcome, the user experience is more 
consistent; with the old behavior, the test automatically highlights the yes or 
no buttons, leaving users wondering if they should press the highlighted 
button, or Next (which always skips and is thus badly named).
  - The comments field should always be present, rather than requiring clicking 
on a button to reveal it. Users also complained that the field was confusing 
since it just appears out of nowhere.
  - Keyboard shortcuts should be added to the controls, so that testing can be 
driven with the keyboard.
  
  The benefit of these changes is to make the UI clearer and less quirky
  (highlighting buttons seems to be a bit unreliable in Qt), to encourage
  users to comment on test results by making the comments field visible at
  all times, and to make testing faster by returning the keyboard controls
  (these were present in the old GTK interface but hadn't been
  reimplemented in the Qt UI).
  
- Since the bulk of these changes are UI related, I was confident I could
- get this in before UI Freeze, however it ended up requiring a few
- changes to the code, which need a Feature Freeze exception to be
- accepted.
- 
  This is the old test screen:
  
  http://people.canonical.com/~roadmr/test-screen-bad.png
  
  This is how the new screen looks like:
  
  http://people.canonical.com/~roadmr/checkbox4.png
  
  Note that a few strings changed: those for the Yes, No, Skip this Test,
  Previous and Next controls, mainly due to the addition of the marker (&
  in the case of Qt) for the keyboard shortcuts.

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  [FFe] [UIFe] Controls in the test screen are confusing and should be
  rearranged.

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