Build Status Excel Report

The Build Status report helps the team track the progress of their builds by showing the number of builds that failed or succeeded for the most recent four weeks.

For information about how to access this report, see Excel reports.

Required Permissions

To view the report, you must be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned the Read permissions in SharePoint Products for the team project.

To modify or customize the report, you must be a member of the TfsWarehouseDataReaders security role in SQL Server Analysis Services. You must also be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned the Members permissions in SharePoint Products for the team project. For more information, see Grant permissions to view or create reports in TFS.

Data in the Report

The team can review the Build Status report to help determine the trend of build health over time and whether any builds need attention today. As the following illustration shows, the report provides a stacked column of the number of builds that were run with an outcome of failed, passed, or unknown during the most recent two weeks.

The chart is based on a PivotTable from data that is stored in the Analysis Services database.

Required Activities for Tracking Build Status

For the Build Status report to be useful and accurate, the team must perform the following activities:

• Configure a build system. To use Team Foundation Build, you must set up a build system.

  For more information, see Configure and manage your build system.

• Create build definitions. You can create several build definitions and then run each of them to produce code for a different platform. Also, you can run each build definition for a different configuration.

  For more information, see Define your build process.

• Run builds regularly. You can run builds at set intervals or after every check-in. You can create regular builds when you use the schedule trigger.

  For more information, see Create or edit a build definition and Run, monitor, and manage builds.

  Note

  Although a team member can manually rate a build by using Build Explorer, this rating is not reflected in the Build Quality Indicators report. The build rating appears in the Build Summary report. For more information, see Rate the quality of a completed build and Build Summary Report.

Interpreting the Report

You can use the Builds Status report to gain insight into the following questions:

• How is my team's build health changing over time?

• Do any builds need attention today?

Customizing the Report

You can customize the Builds Status report by opening it in Office Excel and changing the filter options or a column field list for the PivotTable report. You can modify the report to support other views, as the following table describes.

For more information about how to work with and customize PivotTable and PivotChart reports, see the following pages on the Microsoft Web site:

• Ways to customize PivotTable reports

• Edit or remove a workbook from Excel Services

• Publish a workbook to Excel Services

• Save a file to a SharePoint library or another Web location

See Also

Other Resources

Excel reports