June 2005
Beginner
224 pages
5h 40m
English
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Tracking Project Activity
Tracking a project's activity is very important for end users/stakeholders. Several good indicators are available that can aid in tracking:
The number of commits per day
The number of additional unit tests added every day
The evolution of test percentage coverage
The mailing list activity
The number of existing books on the project (mostly for open source projects)
The number of committers
The number of open issues in the project's bug tracker
The number of years the project has been in existence
It would be very nice to have the equivalent of the Dashboard plug-in, but for project activity. This could provide a global project activity score à la SourceForge project activity percentage (e.g., http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=15278).[4] Unfortunately, such a comprehensive plug-in does not yet exist! Instead, you have several ad hoc possibilities:
Use the StatCVS-XML plug-in to analyze a CVS repository and generate statistics.[5] Unfortunately, such a tool doesn't exist for Subversion yet, but it won't be long before one does.
Use the Developer-Activity and File-Activity Maven plug-ins that respectively report on developer commits and files containing the most changes, within a given date range.
Let's discover how to use these plug-ins.
How do I do that?
To use the StatCVS-XML plug-in you must install it, as it's not part of the default Maven distribution. Install the plug-in from http://statcvs-xml.berlios.de/, following the installation steps described ...
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