Test Plan Progress Excel Report

You can use the Test Plan Progress report to monitor test activities and report on the team's overall test progress. This report shows a burndown chart of the test results for all tests the team has defined for the team project for the most recent four weeks.

This report is available only when the team creates test plans and starts to run tests by using Test Runner and Microsoft Test Manager. For information about how to define test suites and test plans, see Organizing Test Cases Using Test Suites.

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

NoteNote

You can view the Test Plan Progress from the Test or Quality dashboards. You can access these dashboards 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.

NoteNote

A team uses test cases to define both manual and automated tests that it can run and manage by using Test Runner and Microsoft Test Manager. By using Microsoft Test Manager, you can create not only test cases but also test suites and test configurations that support testing your project. You can use test configurations to define how you want to run your Test Cases and test suites. You can group your test cases together by organizing them into a hierarchy of test suites in your test plan. By creating test suites, you can run sets of test cases as a group. For more information, see Defining Your Testing Effort Using Test Plans.

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 Test Plan Progress report to help determine how much testing the team has completed and whether it is likely to finish test activities on time. As the following illustration shows, the report provides a stacked area graph of the results of all tests, grouped into their most recently recorded outcome within the most recent four weeks. Outcomes include Never Run, Blocked, Failed, or Passed.

Test Plan Progress Excel Report

The chart is based on a PivotTable report from data that is stored in the data warehouse. The data is derived from the results that are generated when members of the team run tests by using Microsoft Test Manager. For more information, see Running Tests.

Required Activities for Tracking Test Plan Progress

Interpreting the Report

Updating and Customizing the Report

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