Defect Analytics

Aim: This project is aimed at providing an analytical tool for the Project
managers to
analyse the bugs in the project to:

Understand the quality of the product throughout the project life

cycle to help in
making the Go/no-Go decisions for the project or product.
Understand the load of various teams involved in the bug fixing
process and make
decision on leveling the load
Understand the quality of different components/modules/features of
the product
helping in decision making process of pulling out specific
module/component/feature.
It also helps in identifying the bottlenecks in terms of load, buggy
modules etc.
Overall it helps project managers to focus on specific areas of the
project which needs
his/her attention to help deliver a HIGH quality project/product.

Project Objectives
Problem/Opportunity Statement
The project teams across industry verticals use various bug t racking tools
such as BugZilla, Kintana, Quality Centre etc to file and track the bugs for
a project. At the same time, the project manager/QA manager uses
various metrics as below to make decisions on the quality of the
project/product:
- Defect Density
- Bug Arrival rate vs bug fix rate
- Bug arrival by severity vs bug fix by severity
- Bugs by Status
- Bugs by age, feature or functionality.
While the bug tracking tools provide the ability to file and track bugs, not
all of them provide a reporting tool which helps project managers to pull
out these metrics and make a focused decision.
Defect Analytics is aimed at filling this gap of what bug tracking tools
provide today and what project managers expect.

Goals & Objectives

The overall aim of this project is develop a interoperable defect analytical
tool with focus on providing project managers ability view the bug metrics
in a graphical form and make decisions on the quality of the product.
The solution should support the following business goals:

A tool that integrates with any bug tracking tool and project metrics
in a graphical form
Save ant manual effort involved in putting together the project
metrics.

Bug Metrics
These are some of the examples of graphical output of the bug reports.
Bugs by Status

Bugs by Priority

Bug Arrival by Severity

Bug fixed by Severity