Code Coverage Excel Report

With the Code Coverage report, you can monitor how much code the team is testing over time. Team members can use this report to help determine how close parts of the code are to release quality. For information about how to access this report, see Excel Reports (GovDev) .

NoteNote

You can view the Code Coverage 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 team can review the Code Coverage report to determine whether tests cover the code sufficiently and how the coverage changed over time. As the following illustration shows, the report provides a line graph of the build verification test (BVT) code coverage and other coverage over the most recent four weeks.

Code Coverage Report

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

Required Activities for Tracking Code Coverage

For the Code Coverage report to be useful and accurate, team members must perform the following activities:

Interpreting the Report

Customizing the Report

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