Thinking about dashboards and how we can use them as testers to display testing data and progress.
What sort of data do you like to see at a high level on a dashboard?
I’m always curious to hear what folks have used to demonstrate progress and a snapshot at any given time. I always struggled to find the right balance to satisfy the needs of different stakeholders. I guess the audience is super key. Who are you trying to motivate? Who are you trying to give confidence to? Who are you trying to stop keep asking you for the detail? What conversations are you looking to spark?
It was sometimes disheartening. Like at one point all anyone in our engineering team cared about was that the build broke and who was gonna fix it.
I did once create a dashboard that would track High, Medium, and Low risk automated checks — what’s implemented and what’s to be implemented. It helped my QA team focus their efforts.
First of all - of course colored circles and graphs that show a green color and it says “SUCCESS”.
Serious - it depends for what you need them, for yourself like a monitor dashboard on health states or test execution process or overview on defects/bugs in current sprint or overall for the milestone? I would say create a few dashboards with up to 5-6 data and graphs, don’t overload a dashboard. Keep it simple and stay focused. What I had in my last projects was a dashboard where the complete team and the PO and steakholders could view progress of manual and automated tests in combination of work of defect issues. And then a QA dashboard only for us testers.