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Scheduling defects in an iteration

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:47:53 +0000

When I schedule a user-story in an iteration, it tasks are added to it but its defects are not. Is this normal? Should we schedule each defect individually or is there some other recommended way?

Also, what is recommended way of handling the situation where a user story will be completed over two or more iterations?

How to get email notifications for 'everything'? (4 Comments)

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:52:15 +0000

Question by Sachin Garg

I am using a community edition project and would like to recieve email notifications for every change done in Rally by the team. How do I set this up?

Split a User Story - Task fields not coming across (2 Comments)

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:30:06 +0000

Question by HughMcKee

Summary

After splitting a user story, some custom fields of the task are not coming over to the new task

Full Description

When I split User stories to go over into the next iteration, some of the data on the tasks, especially data in custom fields are not getting carried over into the new User Story

Where is the Velocity Metrics Spreadhseet?! (6 Comments)

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:56:46 +0000

Question by Mike Seavers8268

Summary

Rally created a phenominal spreadsheet that created P-Control charts to measure the stability and predicatbility of a team in Rally based on iteration history. Where is it?

Full Description

The spreadsheet used to be accessible in Rally directly. Then it got moved to Agile Commons. Now, I can't even find it there. I used it less than a month ago - but any reference to it seems to be have stricken from all posts on Agile Commons except one; and that link takes you to a 403 - Forbidden.

Does this spreadsheet still exist? If not, why? Am I the only person who thinks it was the best thing since sliced bread?

Thanks!

Jira Connector for Rally (1 Comment)

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:23:19 +0000

Question by Chuck Bedekovich

Greetings,

The installation documentation mentions the ability to run this script as a Windows Service, but there are no instructions to do so.

Has anyone accomplished this? We have Jira running on a WIndows Server 2003 system, and running the script from a command prompt works fine, but as soon as the user is logged out the script is terminated. We can't keep accounts logged on indefinitely for security reasons, so we need another way of running the connector so that it stays up continually.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks

Chuck Bedekovich

Savi Technology, Inc.

A Lockheed Martin Company

Missing schedule state at the story level (4 Comments)

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:21:08 +0000

Question by Colleen V

I cannot see any schedule state displayed at the user story level. I have this for the individual tasks but do not see the typical roll up to the parent story. Is this something that can be customized?

Setup Default Tasks for a User Story (3 Comments)

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:56:06 +0000

Question by Ravi9725

Summary

Setup Default Tasks for a User Story

Full Description

When I create a new user story, is there a way for rally to create a set of default tasks for the user story.

test set results and views (2 Comments)

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:39:28 +0000

Question by Tony1983

Summary

trying to figure out to best use test case components and results from test cases

Full Description

So I just did a mock test set run to see how the results would display and I am at somewhat of a loss.

1) Why in my test plan view on the quality tab do they display results. I have no way to filter that view from what I can see so the results there are meaningless. That should be a generic view of test cases and there should be a view test sets by release view that has results. This is almost unusable to me.

How are other people using them?

I will be using test sets to bucket groups of test cases for envirnonment testing so I might have a test case in 4 test sets one for each OS we support. I dont see a good way to display that cleanly.

Running secondary queries using collection placeholders (9 Comments)

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:37:20 +0000

Question by EYedvabny

Hello. I am trying to use the batch toolkit's "findAll" function to return all the defects associated with an iteration, including the defects that are scheduled in a different iteration but are listed under a user story within the queried iteration. I use a query array to return all User Stories for the iteration, and then query the Defects object with (Requirement contains ${itr_stories} ), where itr_stories is a collection placeholder. Such an approach is used successfully in the WebServices API help page, but my own query returns "Could not read: could not read all instances of class com.f4tech.slm.domain.Defect". Is the error due to a limitation in the Batch Toolkit, or am I wrong in the wording of the query? If there's another, more direct way of returning the user story defects, that would be much appreciated as well. Thank you.

Functionality -> Convert a User Story to a Task (2 Comments)

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:54:16 +0000

Question by David B

Summary

Is there a way to convert an exsiting user story to a task?

Full Description

Hello, I am new to agile and new to Ralley.

We started with a to-do list. As I was creating the backlog i.e. entering user stories to relfect the list, I realized that many of the items were really tasks that should have be part of a solution to a user story.

Is there any easy way, without deleting and re-typing, to convert a user story into a task supporting a larger user story?

Thanks,

David