Bug Reactivations Excel Report

You can use the Bug Reactivations report to determine how effectively the team is fixing bugs. This report shows the cumulative count of Bugs that the team has reactivated and Bugs that the team has since resolved, for the most recent four weeks. The reactivation rate is also referred to as the fault feedback ratio.

For information about how to access this chart, see Excel Reports (GovDev).

NoteNote

You can view the Bug Reactivations report from the Quality dashboard. You can access this dashboard only if your team project portal has been enabled and is provisioned to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. For more information, see Access a Team Project Portal and Process Guidance.

Required Permissions

To view the report, you must be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned the Read permissions in SharePoint Products for the team project.

To modify or customize the report, you must be a member of the TfsWarehouseDataReaders security role in SQL Server Analysis Services. You must also be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned the Members permissions in SharePoint Products for the team project. For more information, see Grant Access to the Databases of the Data Warehouse for Visual Studio ALM and Managing Permissions.

Data in the Report

The Bug Reactivations report shows an area graph of the number of Bugs that the team has reactivated (Reactivated and Still Active ) from a resolved or closed state and Bugs that the team has Resolved.

Bug Reactivations Excel Report

This report is based on a PivotChart report that shows the most recent four weeks of data that was captured for Bugs and that is stored in the data warehouse.

Required Activities for Tracking Bugs

For the Bug Reactivations report to be useful and accurate, the team must perform the following activities:

  • Define Bugs.

    NoteNote

    For information about how to define area and iteration paths, see Create and Modify Areas and Iterations.

  • Update the State of each Bug as the team fixes, verifies, closes, or reactivates it.

  • (Optional) Specify the Iteration and Area paths of each Bug if you want to filter by those fields.

Interpreting the Report

Updating and Customizing the Report

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