Widgets

Teamscale offers a large variety of highly configurable widgets to create personalized dashboards. These widgets and their configuration options are displayed in the following. Some options are the same for all widgets. Thus, they are described only once at the beginning.

Common Widget Configuration Options

The following table denotes configuration options that are commonly shared by many widgets. As an example, this image shows the beginning of a configuration dialog containing some of these options:

Title	Each widget can be given its own custom title. Teamscale suggests a default title.
Path	The path can be used to select the scope for which the content of the widget should be displayed. The scope can either be an entire project or you can select any folder or component (if an architecture file has been modeled).
Trend	Many widgets can display a trend indicating the evolution of a metric. You can configure the time interval, e.g., if the trend should be considered for the last five days.
Zooming	Allows you to zoom into the chart.
Hide Y-Axes	Removes labeling of the y-axes.
Baselines	Shows the baselines of the underlying project as vertical blue lines in the chart.
Action menu	Adds a drop down menu with option to view a selected zoom range in the Delta perspective and to download the trend as csv.

Assessment Pie Chart Widget

Purpose	Shows an assessment metric as a pie chart.
Metrics	Lets you choose from the available assessment metrics. The thresholds of those metrics are configured in the analysis profile, not in this widget.
Legend	Displays a legend for the widget.
Show absolute values	If checked, absolute values are shown. For structure metrics, these absolute values are LOC or SLOC depending on the analysis profile. For the comment completeness, these values are the number of (un)documented code entities. If unchecked, only relative percentage values of the assessment metric are shown.
Assessment thresholds	Shows target threshold lines. Should be of format »0.05,0.25«, for example.

Assessment Trend Chart Widget

Purpose	Shows the evolution of an assessment metric over time.
Assessment	Lets you choose from the available assessment metrics as configured in your analysis profile.
Show ratios	Whether to show ratios instead of absolute values.

Code City Widget

Purpose	Shows the system as a code city.
Area Metric	Metric used to determine width and depth of a code city skyscraper.
Height Metric	Metric used to determine the height of a code city skyscraper.
Color Metric	Metric used to determine the color of a code city skyscraper.
Color	Color used to color the skyscrapers. When using an assessment metric as color metric, the assessment colors red, yellow and green are always used. When using a numeric metric as color metric, a darker color means a larger metric value.
Included files	Only files matching this regular expression are displayed in the code city. The regular expression is provided as a Java Regex. To include only Java files, enter .*\.java. You can add multiple include patterns, too, by clicking on . This will provide you additional input fields.
Excluded files	Files matching this regular expression will be excluded from the code city.

Commit Chart Widget

Purpose	Shows the commit frequency of the development team over time.
Min. commits per developer	Number of commits a developer must have made at least in order to appear in the chart.
Order	Indicates ordering in which the authors are sorted. You can either select by time, by number of commits or alphabetically by the account name of the authors.

External Content Widget

Purpose	Provides a link to external content and embeds it as an iframe.
URL	Url for the external content.
Allow scrollbars	Allows scrolling within the widget.

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Findings Churn Widget

Purpose	Shows the findings churn within the configurable time interval. Red indicates added findings, blue indicates findings in modified code (based on quality goal improving), and green indicates removed findings.
Findings Type	Allows to choose between code findings and spec item findings.
Show trend text	Indicates if a label with the trend should be displayed within the widget
Filters	Allows to select the findings to be shown in this widget based on, for example, finding group and finding category
Type filter	Allows to select the findings to be shown based on flagging. You can exclude or include tolerated, false positive and non-flagged findings.

Findings Summary Bar Chart Widget

Purpose	Provides a bar chart as summary of all finding categories. Yellow and red indicates the severity of the findings as configured in the analysis profile.
Findings since	Selects a baseline for the findings. Only findings introduced after the baseline are shown.
Assessment filter	Choose if all, only red or only yellow findings should be displayed.
Show timespan text	Choose whether the timespan since the baseline should be displayed.
Selected categories	Select which finding categories should be considered in this widget. The available categories depend on the underlying analysis profile.
Type filter	Allows to select the findings to be shown based on flagging. You can exclude or include tolerated, false positive and non-flagged findings.
Detail level	Choose for which level a bar should be created; you can pick »only categories«, »categories and groups«, »categories, groups, and rules« or »groups and rules«.
Horizontal orientation	Indicates whether bar chart should be oriented horizontally or vertically.
Sort by findings count	Indicates whether chart should be sorted by number of findings or by category names.
Show findings count	Indicates whether the absolute number of findings should be displayed in the chart.

Findings Summary Table Widget

Purpose	Provides a table with a summary of all finding categories. Yellow and red indicates the severity of the findings as configured in the analysis profile.
...	Please refer to the Findings Summary Bar Chart Widget

Issue Table Widget

Purpose	Shows all issues matching a given query.
Enter Query	Choose whether to enter query or select a stored issue query.
Stored Issue Query	Select previously saved issue query to find matching issues. Selected query will be shown in the field **Query** .
Query	Enter query to find matching issues.

Label Widget

Purpose	Adds a label to the dashboard.
Text size	Choose between small, medium and large.
Text color	Pick the label color.
Enable formatting	Format the text using markdown formatting.
Align center	Center the text horizontally.
Wrap text	Uses more than one line if necessary.

Metric Bar Chart Widget

Purpose	Displays metrics for folders or components as bar chart. Can be used, for example, to compare subfolders by size (LOC).
Metrics	Select the metrics you want to display as bars. Available are only numeric metrics. As default, all are selected.
Metric Threshold Configuration	Select your threshold configuration profile.
Hide Threshold Configuration Markers	If unchecked, thresholds from the selected threshold configuration will be shown as markers in the bar charts.
Additional Marker Threshold Configuration	For each numeric metric, you can enter an additional threshold. For example, for the clone coverage, enter »0.05« if you want to set a 5% threshold.
Metric bar colors	Choose the colors of the bars. Colors are assigned to the metrics based on the ordering of the metrics.
Horizontal orientation	Indicates whether bar chart should be oriented horizontally or vertically.
Sort by metric value	Indicates whether the paths should be sorted by metric values. If multiple metrics are selected, the first one is used for sorting.
Show numeric values	Indicates whether the absolute numeric values should be shown in the chart.
Abbreviate values	Indicates whether large values should be abbreviated.
Value is bytes	Indicates whether the values should be interpreted as bytes. For abbreviation, this means that we divide by 1024 instead of 1000.
Include parent node	Include the folder/component you selected as path for the widget.

Metrics Change Table Widget

Purpose	Shows metric changes within a configurable time interval in a table.
Metrics	Select the metrics from your analysis profile to be shown in the widget.

Metric Distribution Pie Chart Widget

Purpose	Shows how code distributes over user-defined intervals of a metric. Exemplary questions that can be answered with this widget are: How much of my code is in overly long files? How much of my code is in files with very high clone coverage? How much of my code is in files with sufficient test coverage?
Primary Metric	Based on the values of the primary metrics, files are classified into different categories. The categories are described by the boundaries. If you select clone coverage as a primary metric, you can display, for example, how much of your code is in files with very high clone coverage.
Boundaries	Sets the thresholds for the primary metric. Based from this thresholds, intervals and corresponding categories are derived. For example, entering two values »0.1 , 0.2« defines three intervals: [0,0.1], ]0.1,0.2], ]0.2, ∞], which could be interpreted as »low«, »medium« and »high« clone coverage.
Colors	For each category defined by the boundaries, you can define a color. Colors are assigned in the same order as the interval/categories are derived.
Aggregation Metric	After each file is classified based on the boundaries of its primary metric, the aggregation metric is used to calculate the distribution. Choosing lines of code, for example, will give you the percentage of your code (in lines of code) that resides within files with a low/medium/high clone coverage.
Legend	Adds a legend.
Boundaries in Legend	Adds a legend and the configured boundaries.
Show absolute values	Shows also the absolute values of the aggregation metric in addition to the relative distribution.

Metric Distribution Table Widget

Purpose	As the previous Metric Distribution Pie Chart widget, this widget shows how code distributes over user-defined intervals of a metric. It only differs by showing the result in a table rather than a pie chart.
...	Please refer to the configuration of the Metric Distribution Pie Chart Widget.

Metric File Distribution Widget

Purpose	Shows how a size metric distributes over files matching configurable regular expressions. Can be used, for example, to display how the amount of code (in LOC) distributes over Java and JavaScript files.
Metric	Choose between LOC, SLOC and Files (Number of Files) to measure the amount of code matching one of your regular expressions.
File regexes	Enter the regular expression patterns using Java Regex syntax for which you want to know the code distribution. Examples can be Java:.*\.java$ and JavaScript:.*\.js, assigning the labels »Java« and »JavaScript« to the two categories.
Colors	Specify a color for each category of files. Colors are assigned in the same order as the categories are defined.
Legend	Include a legend to the widget.
Show absolute values	Shows also the absolute values of the selected metric in addition to the relative distribution.

Metrics Hotspot Table Widget

Purpose	Shows a table with hotspots for the selected metrics. Given the selected metrics, an internal score is calculated to find and rank the hotspots. The smaller the score, the »hotter« the hotspot.
Metrics	Select one or multiple numeric metrics.
Number of hotspots	Enter how many hotspots (files) should be displayed in the table.
Score cutoff	Files with this score or higher will not be shown in the table.
Show score	Select whether or not to show the score in the table.

Metrics Table Widget

Purpose	Shows a table with metrics, along with their trend and assessment based on the underlying threshold configuration.
Metric Threshold Configuration	Select your threshold configuration.
Metrics	Choose the metrics to be shown in the table. Only metrics configured in the threshold configuration are available.
Flatten Single Group	Hides the group title if selected threshold configuration contains only one single group.
Show values	If checked, shows the values of the metric.
Show icons	If checked, shows the assessment icons on the left (red, yellow or green circle)
Show trend	Shows the trend icons on the right (red or green vertical arrow)
Number of days in future	By clicking on a metric value, assessment or trend you can view the history trend of a metric in a new pop-up dialog. In this dialog, the trend chart can include a certain number of days in the future. This can be used for a burn-down chart, when certain target thresholds are set for a metric in the future.

Metrics Trend Chart Widget

Purpose	Shows the trend chart for one or multiple metrics over time.
Colors	Choose the colors for each metric. Colors are assigned in the order as the metrics are sorted.
Show Thresholds	Shows the thresholds. This works only if you selected exactly one single metric and for this metric, there is a corresponding threshold configured in the selected threshold configuration.
Metrics	Select one or multiple numeric metrics.
Stacked	Stack all metrics on top of each other. Needs »Include 0« and »One scale« to be enabled.
Include 0	Ensures '0' is the start value of the y-Axis.
One scale	If checked, all metrics are shown on the same scale with just one axis. Otherwise multiple y-Axis with different scales are used.
Number of days in future	Includes future days in the chart with the main purpose to see thresholds configured for the future. Enabling this feature works only, if you selected exactly one single metric and for this metric, there is a corresponding threshold configured in the selected threshold configuration. The second screenshot above shows an example of a trend that also displays days in the future. This can be seen as the blue line indicating the clone coverage stops on April, 5th. The threshold configurations in the example were set up such that they decline over time.

Numeric Metric Value Widget

Purpose	Shows the value of a numeric metric.
Boundaries	Boundaries are a light-weight version of a threshold configuration. They allow you to configure thresholds to assess a metric. For example for the metric of clone coverage, you can enter the values »0.05,0.10 «. Using the default colors of green, yellow and red, this configuration would display clone coverage values less than 5% with green color, between 5 and 10% with yellow color and above 10% with red color.
Colors	The input for boundaries defines a certain number of intervals. For example, entering two numbers results in three intervals, as explained above. For each interval, you have to pick a color. The color is used as font color of the label when the metric value resides within the corresponding interval.
Labels	Analogous to the above, for accessibility, you have the option to assign a label for each interval that corresponds to a selected color. If set, the label is displayed below the delta value.

Ownership Treemap Widget

Purpose	Shows code ownership information for each file in a treemap, i. e. how many developers have changed the corresponding file. The widget reveals, e.g., code areas that only one or few developers are familiar with. To be able to use this widget, you have to enable the "Code Ownership Analysis" in the analysis profile.
Exclude merge commits	Exclude merge commits to calculate ownership information.
Exclude Teamscale import	Excludes the initial Teamscale import commit to calculate ownership information.
Ownership color	Pick the color to display ownership information. The darker the color, the more developers have changed the corresponding file. Areas, that only one developer is familiar with, are displayed in white.

Single Metric Trend Widget

Purpose	Shows the trend chart for a single metric over time. It can show, however, the same metric for multiple projects.
Additional paths	In addition to the normal path which every widget has, you can add additional paths for this widget. For each configured path, the selected metric will be shown as a separate trend line. Hence, you can, for example, show the lines of code for three different projects in one chart and compare their evolution.
...	For the remaining configuration options, please refer to the very similar Metrics Trend Chart Widget

Test Gap Overview Widget

Purpose	Gives an overview of the results from the test gap analysis.
End date	The point in time until changes are considered.
Cross-annotate execution	Use additional coverage information from other Teamscale projects. This will include coverage for each method that has an identical counterpart in the other project(s) (based on path, location, and content). This can be useful in setups where you have different testing environments for different branches of the same system.
Coverage sources	Selects which coverage sources should be considered.

Test Gap Treemap Widget

Purpose	Shows the results from the test gap analysis in a treemap, in which every rectangle represents a single method.
...	Some configuration options have already been described for the Test Gap Overview widget.
Show execution	Shows only the execution information from the test runs (without combining it with change information).
Outline depth	Determines how many level of packages should be outlined. Outlined packages will be surrounded by a thicker line.
Outline color	Color used to outline packages.
Hide unchanged methods	Shows only changed methods, i. e. hides all gray areas from the treemap. This is particularly helpful in case there are only few changes in a large system, which would otherwise make small changed methods hard to identify.

Test Gap Trend Chart Widget

Purpose	Shows test gap analysis results as a trend chart.
...	Some configuration options have already been described for the Test Gap Overview Widget.
Hide unchanged methods	Rescale the y-Axis to eliminate the big gray and uninformative areas to focus on where the trend actually changes.
Show percent trend	Shows the test gap analysis information as one single numeric metric (»test gaps«) and displays its trend. This option cannot be used, if the previous one is enabled and vice-versa.
Show execution	Show the execution information only (without combining it with change information).

Treemap Widget

Purpose	Shows a metric with a treemap in which every rectangle represents a file.
Area Metric	Metric used to determine the area size of a rectangle representing a file. Only size metrics are available. If the files metric is chosen, all rectangles will have the same (default) size.
Color Metric	Metric used to color a rectangle. In the case of numerical metrics, this means the higher the value for a file, the darker the color for the corresponding rectangle.
Color	Color for the treemap.
Included files	Only files matching the provided regular pattern are displayed in the code city. To include only Java files, use the Java Regex syntax and enter .*\.java. You can add multiple include patterns, too.
Excluded files	Files matching this regular pattern will be excluded from the treemap.
Minimum value	Only for numeric metrics. All values equal or below this value are colored with white. Use -1 to automatically use the lowest metric value as minimum value.
Maximum value	Only for numeric metrics. All values greater or equal to this value are colored with the specified color. Use -1 to automatically use the largest metric value as maximum value. You might want to use this option if you have a single but very large value - an outlier - in your data set which almost dismisses the gradient in the coloring in the treemap.

Issue-based Metric Treemap Widget

Purpose	Helps to identify whether a quality metric (e.g. finding density or line coverage) correlates with defect hotspots in the code.
...	Some configuration options have already been described for the Treemap Widget.
Stored Issue Query	Show those files in color which are referenced by the issues that match the given stored issue query.
Exclude non-referenced files	Exclude those files from the treemap that were not referenced by any issues.
Show weighted averages	This option is available if a numeric metric is selected as color metric. Shows a summary on average metric value over all files and only issue-referenced files. The average value calculation is weighted by the selected Area Metric. For example when selecting LOC as Area Metric, longer files have a larger impact on the result.
Show assessment ratios	This option is available if an assessment metric is selected as color metric. Shows a summary on the percentage of files that are green, yellow or red over all files and over all issue-referenced files.

Metrics Scatter Plot Widget

Purpose	Visualizes up to four different metrics for each file in the source code. Each file is represented by a marker. Two metrics define the x and y position of the markers. Another two metrics can be used to represent the color and size of the markers.
Vertical Metric	Metric used to determine the vertical position of each marker.
Horizontal Metric	Metric used to determine the horizontal position of each marker.
Use Color Metric	Enables the 'Color Metric'. In that case the options 'Color Metric', Boundaries and 'Colors' are used to determine the colors of the markers; otherwise the 'Default Marker Color' option is used.
Color Metric	Metric used to determine the color of each marker, if the 'Use Color Metric' option is enabled.
Boundaries	Sets the thresholds for the 'Color Metric'. The intervals are derived with these boundaries. The thresholds are entered as comma separated list, e.g., "10,20,30". These thresholds result in the intervals (-∞; 10], (10; 20], (20; 30] and (30; ∞). To match these intervals, the Colors option has to provide four colors.
Colors	For each interval defined by the 'Boundaries' option a color is selected. The colors are assigned to the intervals in the same order.
Color Metric Legend	If the box is checked, the legend of the color metric is displayed. In the legend all colors are mapped to their corresponding intervals. The intervals are specified by the 'Boundaries' option.
Default Marker Color	If the 'Use Color Metric' option is disabled, all markers will have this color.
Use Size Metric	Enables the 'Size Metric'. In that case the sizes of the markers are calculated by the options 'Size Metric' and 'Size Metric Range'; otherwise the 'Default Marker Size' option is used.
Size Metric	Metric used to determine the color of each marker, if the 'Use Size Metric' option is enabled.
Size Metric Range	Defines the range of sizes the metric value gets mapped to. The bigger the 'Size Metric' value is, the bigger is the size of the corresponding marker. The range is entered as a comma separated pair of a lower and an upper bound.
Default Marker Size	If the 'Use Size Metric' option is disabled, all markers will have this size.
Marker Opacity	Opacity of the markers. Should be a value between 0 and 1.

Task Summary Pie Chart Widget

Purpose	Shows a summary over the states of the tasks created in the Quality Control > Tasks view.
Additional paths	In addition to the normal path which every widget has, you can add additional paths for this widget. For each configured path, the selected metric will be shown as a separate trend line. Hence, you can, for example, show the lines of code for three different projects in one chart and compare their evolution.
Legend	Include a legend.
Show absolute values	Shows the absolute number of tasks in the legend in addition to the percentage values.
Show discarded tasks	Includes discarded tasks as separate category in the summary.