Defect Impact Report

The Defect Impact report lets you view the impact of selected defects on cases and requirements. This report can be used to understand how widespread is the impact of the defect.

Also, the Defect Impact report enables the team to:

• Decide the priority for fixing the defect.

• Decide the areas that need to be regressed if the defect is getting fixed.

• Defects, which are not associated with any case, could indicate missing Case coverage.

In this documentation, you’ll understand:

Steps to Generate Defect Impact Report

Step 1: To generate Defect  Report, simply click on the Chevron option for Defect Impact.

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Step 2: Once you click on the chevron icon, the Defect Impact Report input window will be displayed on the screen.  Enter the required details into the respective fields.

• Defects: Specify the defects for which the report needs to be generated. Defects can be selected via three options:

• List: Search list of Jira issues via key or title. 

• JQL (Jira Query Language): Specify requirements meeting criteria using standard JQL. Clicking on the JQL box opens up the standard Jira box which helps in faster JQL creation.

• Filter: Select a filter created and saved in Jira (the list of filters from Jira is pre-populated and is shown upon clicking inside the search box).

• Include only the Last Run: Check this box if only the last run of the cases should be considered for the report. If not selected, all runs of the resulting cases will be considered in the report.

• Include Runs only from the current Project: Check this box if the runs from only the current project should be considered for the report. If not selected, runs from all the projects should be considered. 

Step 3: Finally, click on the Generate button. 

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Once you click on the Generate button, the report output will be displayed on the screen. 

Defect Impact Report Output- Overview

Here’s a detailed explanation of the Defect Impact report output.  

The Defect Impact report contains two sections:

• Overview: This section gives the overview of the report in numbers.

  • Defects: Total number of Defects selected via Report input.

  • Defects caught: Number of Defects found using Cases.

  • Defects missed: Number of Defects not found via Cases.

  • Cases impacted: Number of Cases impacted via selected Defects.

  • Requirements impacted: Number of Requirements impacted via selected Defects.

• Details: This section will show the impact of defects on Cases and Requirements. It has two views Detailed and Summary. These can be toggled using the View dropdown in the report.

Detailed View

By default, the report is opened in Detailed View.

Detailed view shows Defect → Associated Run → Case → Requirement information for each Defect selected via report input.

Some highlights of the report data:

• A Defect can impact multiple Runs of a Case in different Cycles. 

• A Defect can impact multiple Cases. For example: AS-122 is impacting 3 different Cases.

• A Defect might not have any Run information, which could indicate missing Case coverage. For example: AS-125 does not have any Run associated with it.

Summary View

Click on the View dropdown at the top-right corner of the Details section to switch to the Summary view.

The Summary view shows the same data as the Detailed view without the Run information. The Cases and Requirements are clubbed together in a single list. Counts are shown for each Defect row for easy analysis.

This view is more useful when doing a high-level analysis, where Run data is not required.  

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