Technology

Developer's view: individual statistics

The Eclipse plugin captures Java and Ruby test results (see Captured Data), updates the user's view of his own metrics, and transmits them to the central server via HTTP/HTTPS in a standard XML format:

Developer's view: team and global statistics

The central server, updated with the information from other team members and other projects, updates the team and global metrics presented in the Eclipse plugin:

Team lead's / coach's / manager's view

The central server, with all the team's updates, also presents the information on a web site so that team leads, coaches, and managers have access to their projects' information whether or not they have the Eclipse plugin:

Distributed team view

Since all the Eclipse plugins are updating data on the central server, it makes no difference where the individual developers or the managers are: they will all see the latest information from all team members: