Defect Report By Project

[dmfranko]

Hello,

I've been looking into the PPM plugin and it's capabilities and I've run into a question I can't seem to answer.   Is it possible to report defects related to a particular project.   Is there anything OOB that does this?   I can see them at the test case level and if I go into the 'Open Defects' module under SDLC I see them, but I'm not finding an obvious way to filter them by project.

[dmfranko]

Actually, it looks like Parent Feature.Story.Project is one way of doing it?

[kellykaufmann]

Are you referring to logging Defects in the SDLC module, or defects for Agile within the Project module (in Fuji)?

If the former... how will you have anything rolled up to a PRJ project?

If the latter....I don't think so because the assumption is that a Sprint will include efforts from multiple projects, therefore everything isn't coded to be able to roll up to / report against a single project (we just hit this roadbump with time reporting). What you may want to do instead is have defects roll up to the Agile Phase of a PRJ. Then you should be able to report defects against that Agile Phase task (this is how we're rolling up Time Worked for Agile..haven't yet figured out how to get that leap from the Agile Phase into the PRJ so the PRJ reflects both Agile & Waterfall time worked).

I'm not an Admin or an expert, so please others correct me if I'm giving wrong info!!

[amullendarby]

I think Kelly is right, if you add a Defect to the actual Agile Phase (or any Project Task within the Project) then the Top task field gets populated properly so that you can search Defects by Top task to get the Defects on the Project. I tried multiple other ways, including using Parent feature fields on the Defect, they don't seem to get populated when you add a Defect to a Story on the Agile phase of a Project.

If you do add the Defects to a Project Task in the project (Agile phase makes the most sense to me) then you can display the Defect - Parent related list on the Project Tasks and then Defect - Top task on the Project and it will show the Defects for the tasks and then all the defects for all the tasks at the Project level. The same is not true of Stories, top task does not seem to populate the same for Stories.

I also tried to use a Test phase (uses Test Plans fro the Test Management app, included with PPS) and you can report Defects against Test Cases which are on the Test Phase but that relation is maintained in a different table that support many to many relationships. If you have not checked out this functionality, give it a shot, it might give you a different solution. It is really cool because it allows you to use request level users to do your UAT testing.

[dmfranko]

I did notice that you can send out tests much like you do surveys and I think that's a very neat feature that I haven't seen in other tools.