Build Quality Excel Report

Teams who are responsible for testing software can use the Build Quality report to help monitor the success or failure rate of test activity with each build. The Build Quality report provides the following reports, which show the test results for all build definitions for a team project.

• Build Verification Testing: Helps the team monitor the quality of builds by showing test results for all automated tests that are marked as Build Verification Test (BVT) that are run during the build process.

• Test Activity Per Build: Helps the team monitor the quality of builds by showing test results for all tests that have been run against the build for all or selected test plans.

  Note

  You can view the Build Quality report if you open Team Explorer, open the team project, open the Excel Reports folder, and open the Test Team Management folder. You can access this folder only if your team project portal has been enabled and is provisioned to use SharePoint Products. For more information, see Access a Team Project Portal and Process Guidance.

These reports are available only when the team creates test plans and starts to run tests by using 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 (Agile).

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 Reports

The Build Quality reports illustrate the cumulative count of test results for all build definitions for a team project. Both reports are based on PivotTable reports that access data that is stored in the data warehouse. The count that is shown in each report is a count of the most recent version of each test result in a particular build.

Build Verification Testing

Test Activity per Build

The following table describes the report filters and fields that are used in the PivotTables that generate the Build Quality reports.

Required Activities for Monitoring Build Quality

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

• Define test cases and test plans, and assign test cases to the test plans. For more information, see Defining Your Testing Effort Using Test Plans.

• Configure a build system. To use Team Foundation Build, you must set up a build system.

  For more information, see Configuring Your Build System.

• Create build definitions. You can create several build definitions and then run each of them to produce code for a different platform. Also, you can run each build for a different configuration.

  For more information, see Define Your Build Process.

• Define tests to run automatically as part of the build. As part of the build definition, you can define tests to run as part of the build or to fail if the tests fail.

  For more information, see Define a Build Process that is Based on the Default Template and How to: Configure and Run Scheduled Tests After Building Your Application.

• Run builds regularly. You can run builds at set intervals or after every check-in. You can create regular builds when you use the schedule trigger.

  For more information, see Create a Build Definition and Run, Monitor, and Manage Builds.

• Run tests. For more information, see Running Tests.

• (Optional) To support filtering, assign Iteration and Area paths to each test case.

  Note

  The project administrator for each team project defines area and iteration paths for that project so that the team can track progress by those designations. For more information, see Create and Modify Areas and Iterations.

Updating and Customizing the Report

You can update the Build Quality report by opening it in Office Excel and changing the filter options for the PivotTable report for one of the worksheets. You can customize each report to support other views, as the following table describes.

For more information about how to work with and customize PivotTables and PivotChart reports, see the following pages on the Microsoft Web site:

• Ways to customize PivotTable reports

• Edit or remove a workbook from Excel Services

• Publish a workbook to Excel Services

• Save a file to a SharePoint library or another Web location

See Also

Concepts

Create and Modify Areas and Iterations

Other Resources

Test Management Reports

Excel Reports (Agile)