Builds Status Excel Report

The Build Status report helps the team track the progress of their builds by showing the number of builds that failed or succeeded for the most recent four weeks.

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

NoteNote

You can view the Build Status 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 Build Status report to help determine the trend of build health over time and whether any builds need attention today. As the following illustration shows, the report provides a stacked column of the number of builds that were run with an outcome of failed, passed, or unknown during the most recent two weeks.

Build Status report

The chart is based on a PivotTable from data that is stored in the Analysis Services database.

Required Activities for Tracking Build Status

For the Build Status report to be useful and accurate, the team must perform the following activities:

Interpreting the Report

You can use the Builds Status report to gain insight into the following questions:

  • How is my team's build health changing over time?

  • Do any builds need attention today?

Customizing the Report

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