issue search & report

[cem]

Hello,

I want to use EA to track issues. To accomplish this, I tried to relate "Actor"s denoting developers to issues via realization as mentioned in EA Help - Assign People to Defects or Changes. I also added tagged value to the issues denoting their status (Open, assigned, ready to verify, closed, etc...). Now I want query the issues like: Find the issues assigned to  developerX and issue's status is ready to verify. Any idea, how could I define such a search?

Another problem I have on the "issue" is how to take metrics like
-duration in which the issue stayed in the status assigned (how long did it take to close that issue)
-number of issues having priority higher than low
-number of issues per package
etc etc...
Any advice on how to write or build such queries?

Thanks.

[Eve]

My recommendation would be to use a defined tag type to allow choosing of an author or resource instead of connecting to an actor.

This allows much easier searching.  (You can search on tag value, but not on what it is connected to unless you write a custom SQL search.)

You can probably write a query to get some of your metrics back, but it would probably be easier to do using an add-in.  (In which case you could use your add-in to do the above search too.)

[«Midnight»]

FWIW...

You can also query the tags - either the value of the tag or whether the tag exists at all - through both the transformation language and shape scripts.

That might help if you take this to another level down the line.