Checkbox-qt: When checkbox is running an automated test, previous test interface should not appear.

Agreed, seeing the previous manual tests while one or more shell tests are running doesn't make sense. However, I'm not clear on the solution you propose.

You first suggest "tests should run in their own window", do you mean a popup window? If so, should a new popup window open and close for each shell test or should one popup window refresh itself as long as there are shell tests running?

You also suggest "refresh/restore active window", what should it contain?

While answering these questions, I'd appreciate if you could consider the two extreme use cases where you have few shell tests that take a lot of time or you have many shell tests that take little time. So, for a popup window that opens and closes, the user experience might just look like windows flashing by if the tests take little time.

Hmm, I see your point.

Would a feasible solution be to remove any instructions from the display box, and "grey-out"/lock out the radio buttons, comment area, next, and instruction area?

Removing the instructions from the display box might look a bit empty though. Now that descriptions are required for shell tests, we might consider showing that in the display box to give more information about the test currently running. These descriptions might flash by more clickly than users could reasonably read them though, so that might be a usability concern. It might be worth see what people think about this on the ubuntu-friendly-squad mailing list.

email sent. Waiting for responses.

based on the feedback, the proposal is to do the following:

1.) Disable all buttons from being "click-able."
2.) Remove the previous test description text and set the container of text to an inactive "grey" state.
3.) Clear the Test name area so that the previous test name is no longer shown.

A merge proposal is under way.