Parasoft to Polarion ALM Traceability Reports

In this section:

Viewing the Traceability Report

If the External System Traceability Report has been deployed to your system (see Configuring Parasoft to Polarion ALM Traceability), you can add widgets to your dashboard to monitor traceability from your requirements in Polarion to test results in Parasoft DTP system for your project. The widgets also drill down to a report that includes additional details.

Adding and Configuring the Widgets

The widgets will appear in a separate Traceability category when adding widgets to your DTP dashboard. See Adding Widgets for general instructions on adding widgets.

You can configure the following settings:

Title	You can enter a new title to replace the default title that appears on the dashboard.
Filter	Choose Dashboard Settings to use the dashboard filter or choose a filter from the menu. See Configuring Filters for additional information about filters.
Target Build	This should be set to the build ID you executed the tests and code analysis under. You can use the build specified in the dashboard settings, the latest build, or a specific build from the menu. Also see Configuring Dashboard Settings.
Type	Pie widget only. Choose either a Tests, Violations, or Reviews from the menu to show a pie chart detailing the status by type. Add instances of the widget configured to each type for a complete overview in your dashboard.
Project	Choose a Polarion project from the menu.

Requirements Widget

This widget shows the number of requirements from the specified Polarion project.

Click on the widget to open the Requirement Traceability report.

Test Coverage Widget

This widget shows the percentage of Polarion requirements covered by tests in Parasoft DTP against all requirements in the Polarion project.

Click the center of the widget to open the main Requirement Traceability report.

The colored-in segment represents the requirements covered by tests. Click on the segment to open the Requirement Traceability report filtered to the With Tests category.

Pie Widget

Unit testing, functional testing, static analysis, and peer reviews are common activities for verifying that requirements have been properly and thoroughly implemented. This widget shows the overall status of the Polarion project requirements in the context of those software quality activities in Parasoft DTP. You can add a widget for each type of quality activity (tests, static analysis violations, reviews) to monitor the progress of requirements implementation for the project.

Mouse over a section of the chart to view details about quality activity type status. Click on the widget to open the Requirement Traceability report filtered by the selected type.

Requirements Implementation Status by Tests

Requirements Implementation Status by Violations

Requirements Implementation by Reviews

Understanding the Requirement Traceability Report

The report lists the Polarion requirements and data associated with them in Parasoft DTP.

You can perform the following actions:

Click on a link in the Key column to view the requirement in Polarion.
Click on a link in the Summary column or one of the Test columns to view the test-related information associated with the requirement in the Requirement Details Report.
Click on a link in one of the Files columns to view the static analysis-related information associated with the requirement in the Requirement Details Report.
Click on a link in one of the Reviews columns to view the change review-related information associated with the requirement in the Requirement Details Report.
Enable Show files/reviews if you want to show the Files and Reviews columns in the report. This option is disabled by default. The Files and Reviews columns will only contain data if the requirements have been mapped to source files (see Configuring Parasoft to Polarion ALM Traceability). When disabled, the Files and Reviews columns on this screen are hidden in the related tabs in the Requirement Details report.

Requirement Traceability Report by Type

Clicking on a section of the Requirements - Pie widget opens a version of the report that includes only the quality activity type selected in the widget. You can use the menus to switch type and status. You can also enable Show files/reviews if you want to show the Files and Reviews columns in the report. The Files and Reviews columns will only contain data if the requirements have been mapped to source files (see Configuring Parasoft to Polarion ALM Traceability). Disabling the Files and Reviews columns on this screen hides the related tabs in the Requirement Details report.

Understanding the Requirement Details Report

The Requirement Details report provides additional information about the files, static analysis findings, and tests associated with a specific Polarion requirement. You can open this report by clicking on a requirement in the main Requirement Traceability report.

The first tab shows the results of the tests that were executed to verify the specific work item.

You can click on the View results in Test Explorer link to view all of the tests associated with the requirement in the Test Explorer.

You can also click on individual test names in the table to view each test in the Test Explorer.

The second tab shows the files associated with the specific requirement, as well as the static analysis violations detected in the files. You can click the link the Violations column to view the violations in the Violations Explorer, which provides additional details about the violations.

This tab will only contain data if the requirements have been mapped to source files (see Configuring Parasoft to Polarion ALM Traceability). If you did not map requirements to files, you can hide this tab by disabling Show files/reviews on the main traceability report page and reloading the details report.

If the files include any change reviews or review findings, they will be shown in the third tab with links to view them in the Change Explorer.