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Exercise 2: Viewing Quality Dashboard

In this exercise, you will learn how to launch dashboards from Microsoft Test Manager 2010 and study the Quality Dashboard in particular.

Note:
A significant portion of this lab is dedicated to demonstrating where to find reports and what type of information that they provide. The actual data that is contained within the virtual machine may differ from the screenshots shown in this document. In addition, it is important to point out that since it is sample data, it does not always realistically represent what you would expect to see if an actual software team was generating this data. 

  1. In Microsoft Test Manager, select the Track tab and then select the Project Portal link to load the project portal in Internet Explorer.

    Figure 1

    Location of Project Portal link

    Note:
    This virtual lab environment does NOT include a Quality Dashboard. The following steps and screenshots are for your reference only. You may go through the remainder of this exercise in a different VM where a Quality Dashboard has been pre-configured.

  2. In the left pane, select the Quality link under the Dashboard section to open the Quality Dashboard.

    Figure 2

    Quality Dashboard showing a variety of quality metrics

  3. As shown in the figure below, the Quality Dashboard includes reports that answer the following questions about product quality:
    • Are we making progress on running test plans?
    • How are our builds doing over time?
    • Are we fixing bugs?
    • What is the quality of our bug fixes?
    • Are we getting enough code coverage?

    • How many lines of code are we churning?

      Figure 3

      The Quality Dashboard answers a wide variety of questions

Next Step

Exercise 3: Viewing Reports in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

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