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Configuration Management

Issue Tracking

Issue Reports

Quality Report: Historical Severity

Purpose
  • This shows how many issues were open over time, based on their Severity.
  • Unlike Rolling Totals, which shows counts by state, independent of severity, this is only concerned with non-closed issues, regardless of state.
  • Rolling Totals might show a still-growing number of issues.
    This would show whether most of those issues are significant or not.
Benefits
  • If issues are way disproportionate in the Severity 1 compared to other severities, then the QA manager might question the level of unit-testing that developers are doing prior to check-in and builds.
  • This lets the Development Manager know that unit-tests are being skipped.
Drawbacks
  • State is not visible... it's not clear whose queue the issues are in.
  • Only valid for one project at a time

 

Historical Severity