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Configuration Management

Issue Tracking

Issue Reports

Quality Report: Cumulative Trend

Purpose
  • Shows the RATE (slope) that issues are moving through each state.
  • The difference in slope between states (lines) shows whether we are finding issues more rapidly than we are fixing them or not.
  • All data will converge up top in parallel lines, indicating total number of defects moved through the system.
Benefits Steep slopes mean no end in sight to the undiscovered defects still hiding within the system. The report helps predicts how many more defects will be found.
Drawbacks A week of no new bugs may hide the number that are still open from an earlier period, but not yet addressed.

 

Cumulative Trend