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SAP ALM Analytics: SAP Cloud ALM Defects Dashboards
Goal of this blog post
In this blog, we will create a simple panel displaying analytics for Defects entities managed by SAP Cloud ALM with the ALM Grafana plugin.
Pre-requisites
- You have created a service key to your SAP Cloud ALM tenants (check this blog).
- You should configure a Grafana data source connected to your SAP Cloud ALM tenant.
- You have configured at least one project in your SAP Cloud ALM tenant. (check the SAP support portal)
ALM Defects Data Provider
The SAP Cloud ALM Defects data provider supports the following dimension:
| Dimensions | Description | Filter |
| name | Defect Name | yes |
| GUID | Internal GUID of the defect | |
| project | project of the defect | yes |
| projectName | Project name | |
| scope | scope ID | yes |
| scopeName | Scope of the defect | |
| defectStatus | defect status | yes |
| statusText | Text of the defect status | |
| role | Assigned role to the defect | yes |
| priority | Priority | yes |
| team | Team assigned to the defect | yes |
| dueDate | Due date of the defect | |
| testCaseId | Test case ID | yes |
| testCaseName | Test Case Name | |
| workstream | workstream of the defect | |
| counter | Defect counter (Measures) |
Query
From your Grafana instance, create a query for each project to be displayed in your dashboard:
- Add a Panel
- Select your SAP Cloud ALM “Data source”.
- Select the “Time Series” format.
- Select the data provider: “ALM Defects”
- Select the name of your project.
- Select the name of your project scope
- Select the following dimensions:
- statusText
Visualisation
Select the “Bar Chart” visualisation with the following settings:
- Query transformation: Select the “Rename by regex” transformation to remove the measure name of the time-series legend. (Note: When multiple series are returned for a drill-down the name of the measure is automatically added to the name of the time-series).
- Query Options:
- Select “3M” as relative time option in the “Query Options” panel.
Result
The result will show a bar chart displaying the progress over weeks for defects status for a given project managed in your SAP Cloud ALM instance.
In the next blog, we will create a panel displaying Requirements analytics.
Thanks for reading.
Hi Xavier Deprat. Thanks for the post.
It seems that currently there is no way to see the link between Defect and Test Execution is it correct?
I.E. Customer would like to start prioritizing developer work before go live. To drive the test script completion percentage up. However they cannot seem to be able to run reports from CALM that show the ID of the defects linked to a failed script.
Hello,
The DP_DEFECTS (https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-alm/apis/defects-analytics-api) and the DP_TESTS (https://help.sap.com/docs/cloud-alm/apis/test-management-analytics-api) can be linked by the TestCaseId Dimension.