9. Reporting and Metrics

This book presents you with the process of testing using the tools provided by Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010. Chapter 1, “State of Testing,” mentioned that metrics were one of the most important items to come out of testing because without metrics, you can’t prove, or improve, quality. This chapter teaches you about the reporting capabilities of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server with a look at several different aspects of reporting. The chapter concludes with a specific look at metrics: what are good metrics, how you record them, and what actions you should take based on them.

TFS includes a number of different mechanisms to make data available to you, but at its core you report off of a SQL Server ...

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