Billing Reports
Billing Report gives details of time spent by all resources on different areas like Test Management, Test Execution, Tasks, Bug fixing, User Story implementation, Kanban Tasks and thus Total time for filtered dates. This also has Billing Rate of all users from which total billable amount is calculated and shown on this report.
Users can also refer to these detailed reports for more details :
1. Manage Test Time Detail :
Manage Test Time Detail report gives time taken by an individual to add/update test cases along with date.
Use => If a particular test case is taking more time to Add or Update, it means the test case is not written very efficiently. We can check whether we can reduce number of steps and make the test case better.
2. Test Execution Detail :
Test Execution Detail report gives details of all test cases which were executed by an individual along with details like Application Area, Executed On and Duration etc.
Uses => If a particular test case is taking more time to execute, it means number of steps written for the test case written are more or the complexity of test case is high. We can try to reduce both of these by revisiting the test case.
3. Billable Task Detail :
Billable Task Detail report gives details of tasks/operations like Development, Testing along with Duration and Date.
Uses => Users can keep a track of their un-parented billable tasks’ details from this report. These tasks can be like Product Meeting, Scrum Ceremonies etc.
4. Bug Time Detail :
Bug Time Detail report gives time taken to fix and retest the bugs along with date.
Uses => If a particular bugs is taking more time to fix, it means the complexity of bug is high. We have to retest these bugs more frequently as these might cause big code changes or injections in existing running code. Also, developers need to be more alert while fixing these bugs.
5. User Story Task Detail :
User Story Task Detail report gives time taken by an individual to complete the user story tasks along with date.
Uses => If a particular task/type of task is taking more time, we should divide these tasks. This will help to reduce risk and task can be done fast. We can also think of creating a story for these kind of tasks in future.
6. Kanban Task Detail :
Kanban Task Detail report gives time taken by an individual to complete the Kanban tasks along with date.
Uses => Kanban board is mainly used for quick work. Kanban tasks need to be done quickly and on time. If Kanban Tasks are taking more time, there can be some dependency which we need to address immediately. Or if the tasks are complex, we need to take help from senior/technically sound resources.