Purpose

Bugs Closed Without 'Fix Version' shows a number amount of defects that are fixed in an unknown version.

How metric helps

Bugs Closed Without 'Fix Version' helps to highlight an issue in defects tracking. The expected metric value is 0.

How metric works

Chart overview

Chart shows a number of defects with an unknown version they are fixed in - number in the center. Target value is above the chart.

By click on a chart a pop up appears with the following information got from the task tracking system:

Issue ID
Type
Priority
Summary

Calculation

Bugs Closed Without 'Fix Version' is a number of items of a defect type with an empty "Fix version" field in a a task tracking system.

RAG thresholds: Red - metric value > 0; Green - metric value = 0.

Assumptions

1 Metric shows information about all defects from the configured data source.

2 Defect type is taken from the setting in Project Settings ->Data Sources ->Task Tracking System ->Scope Management -> Definition of Work Buckets -> Defects

3 Invalid defects are excluded from the calculation. Invalid defect is that conforms to Project Settings ->Data Sources ->Task Tracking System ->Quality Management ->Criteria for invalid defects.

4 Releases are created.

Data Source

Data for the metric can be collected from a task tracking system (Jira, TFS, Rally, etc.).