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Resolved Defects

Definition

Number of defects that are in the resolved status.  

Calculation

To be able to calculate that metric, it is important that in your defect tracking system you track:
  • defect status

Dimensions

Following dimensions are aplicable to Resolved Defects metrics:
  • Project/Product. To aggregated DDP over all released versions of the project or product.
  • Priority.
  • Date.

Presentation

Resolved defects metric is best visualized with single trend line chart, which shows you the history of metric values.  

If you are looking to do drill-down analysis, bar-chart and pie-chart can help you. For example bar-chart for number of resolved defects per product or pie chart to represent break-down of resolved defects by priority.

Example

For example, suppose that you have 100 defects registered in you bug tracking tool. 10 of those are in status closed, 25 are in status resolved, 65 are in open status. In this case, value of number of resolved defects is 25.