Actions should be easier to differentiate from expected results

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Currently, checkbox renders tests like so

1. Do something
    Expect Result

This can get confusing to read when there are many steps. It would be easier to read if the result steps were italicized. You can see an example of this here: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1301/info.

So I would propose something like

(bolded) 1. Do something
   (in italics) Expect Result

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

In looking at how this works in checkbox (aka, it just displays the entire description as a textbox), I'm not sure how possible this is. Checkbox would need to parse and understand actions vs steps.

[Maciej Kisielewski (kissiel)]

Each checkbox job is meant to test one thing, this is why intermediate verifications are not supported within job.
Having said that, there is a way to create a chain of jobs, where next stage requires the previous one to pass [1].
Furthermore, checkbox makes distinction between three sections of descriptions: purpose, steps, verification. When used, each of those will be rendered on a separate ‘screen’ of the app.
By combining ‘depends’ field (chaining) and purpose/steps/verification fields expected behaviour can be achieved.

[1] http://plainbox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manpages/plainbox-job-units.html?highlight=job%20unit