A gadget allows you to display dynamic content inside a dashboard, these gadgets can be as simple as lists based on filters, or complex reports.
You can add gadgets to your personal dashboard, and even share dashboards with other users. By doing this, you are personalizing your own view of information and build a way to get insights that will help you to make better decisions.
To use a gadget:
Go to the dashboard by selecting theDashboardslink in the header.
If you don't already have a dashboard, selectManage Dashboardsfrom the dropdown, thenCreate new dashboard.
Once your dashboard is created, on the dashboard, select Add Gadget.
Use the gadget wizard to choose the gadgets you want to add.
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After loading all the gadgets available, you can search for "xray" to easily find the gadgets made available by Xray.
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Gadgets available by Xray
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Example
What to use for?
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Overall Requirements Test CoverageGadget
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Quick way of evaluating the current coverage status for a set of requirements, that can span one or more projects.
This gadget provides a quick way of evaluating the current status of your project tests. You're able to visually identify the tests by filtering them beforehand, and determine their status.
Xray makes it possible for you to analyze the status for a given version, taking into account the executions made for that version. Alternatively, it is possible to perform this analysis by considering a specific Test Plan; thus, you're able to evaluate the status in its context.
This gadget provides a quick way of evaluating the current status of your project test sets. You're able to visually identify the test sets by filtering them beforehand, and determine their overall status based on all the tests associated with them.
Xray makes it possible for you to analyze the status for a given version, taking into account the executions made for that version. Alternatively, it is possible to perform this analysis by considering a specific Test Plan; thus, you're able to evaluate the status in its context.
This gadget provides a quick way of evaluating the current status of your project test executions. You're able to visually identify the test executions by filtering them beforehand, and determine their overall status based on all the tests associated with them.
This gadget provides a quick way of evaluating the current status of your project test plans. You're able to visually identify the test plans by filtering them beforehand, and determine their overall status based on all the tests associated with them.
This gadget provides a quick way enables of evaluating the status for some Tests, taking into account the results obtained in the context of a version or of a Test Plan.
Possible usage scenarios:
See the amount of Tests, by current status, for a specific Version or Test Plan (i.e. have an overview of the Tests in the context of a version or of a Test Plan)
Analyse the overall progress of a Test Plan
Analyse the overall status of some Tests, on some specific Test Environment
Analyse how a subset of some Test cases currently is (e.g. the ones defined by some relevant criteria in a user defined filter), in some version or in some Test Plan
This gadget provides a quick way of evaluating the current status of your project tests. You're able to visually identify the requirements by filtering them beforehand, and determine their coverage status.
Quickly check the status of a group of requirements for a specific Version, Environment or Test Plan.
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Setting a Gadget
After selecting the gadget you want to use, you may need to perform some settings, especially the source data ( Project or saved filter?).
Other settings can be made depending on the gadget that you have selected such as:
date range
group by
Execution Scope
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By using a saved filter means, that you can display information from across different projects. Be aware that you might have to create the filter first (using Jira built-in features) in order to use it at your gadget.
Check out the documentation about each gadget to see the settings you can perform at each gadget - Reporting using Gadgets.