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The first section of the Execution Burndown report consists of the title, objective, start date and end date of the cycle.
Burndown Chart
A sample burndown chart for a completed iteration is shown below.
The key parameters of the report are explained in the table below.
X-Axis | The Dates - according to cycle/iteration timeline. |
Y-Axis | The Case Count - shows the number of cases in the cycle. |
Start Point | This is the extreme left point of the chart and occurs at day 0/ start date. On hovering over, you can see how many cases are still pending in the cycle. |
End Point | This is the extreme right point of the chart and marks the end date (the end date considers the day’s 6 pm as the actual end). On hovering upon, you can see that 0 cases are still pending in the cycle. |
Guideline | This is a straight grey line that connects the start point to the endpoint. At the start point, the guideline shows the number of cases that are still to be executed. At the endpoint (the end date considers the day’s 6 pm as the actual end), the guideline intercepts the x-axis showing that there is no work left to be completed. |
Burndown line | The blue line represents the burndown. The burndown line tells you how fast you are burning down the work. At the start point, the burndown line starts from the same point where the guideline started. But as time progresses, the burndown line fluctuates above and below the guideline depending on the pace at which the cases are being executed. |
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The goal of a burndown chart is to display the progress towards completion and give an estimate of the likelihood of timely completion. The following table shall help you measure the performance of your project.
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The tabular form of the same burndown chart shown above can be seen in the below screenshot.
The above table shows the clickable number of cases that have been passed or failed at the Cycle’s Start date (Start point) followed by the dates on which cases were executed. It also shows how many cases are pending for those dates.
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Two observations can be made from the table above:
355 125 cases were pending on the start date, 1 case 10 cases passed on Mar 17th, 30 Sep 18th and 1 failed, 17 cases passed and 1 0 failed on Mar 18thSep 19th. So pending cases are reduced by 32 28 (10+1+30+117), which means 323actual pending cases are 97.
As 30 17 cases passed on Mar 18th Sep 19th (referring Day Total column), the cumulative total column adds the previous day’s 1 10 passed case cases to this 3017, to get 31 27 passed cases. Similarly, 0 cases failed, on Mar 17thSep 19th, the cumulative total column adds the previous day’s 0 1 failed cases to 1 0 failed on Mar 18thSept 19th, to get 1 failed case.
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