• relates to : TW-2509
  is required for : TW-4751
  

<Warning>this issue is really an epic</Warning>

TC keeps (or will keep) all the necessary aspects of a project health.
Presenting a view that summarizes all these and give a trend graphs and summary status on each would help tremendously keep projects under control.
Visibility to that data is crucial to the good execution of a project.

Graphs could show a short term and long term view (long term is needed for strategic tracking, short term to drive improvement day to day).
The summary status would give a green, yellow, red type status on each aspect and on the overall health.
Look at the competition (like agitar's at http://www.agitar.com/openquality/hibernate2/index.html or CodeReport) for inspiration

That view would need to be customizable with plugins to integrate new aspects/reports.
Reports could cover many aspects:
1. internal quality like
1.1 coverage (corbutera, clover, emma)
1.2 package design (jdepend, macker)
1.3 duplication (PMD, IDEA duplication)
1.4 code analysis (CheckStyle, FindBugs, IDEA inspections),
1.5 continuous integration (TC future 2.0 CI reports... ) or
1.6 review rate (crucible,
2. external quality like
2.1 bug trends (integrating with jira, bugzilla, clearquest...)
2.2 plan status (integrating with versionone, rally, xplanner...)
2.3 documentation trends (integrating with confluence, jforums...)

(Look at http://www.intellij.net/forums/message.jspa?messageID=5181475#5181475 and http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/TW-1665 for some background around how different reports could be integrated).

Most of these reports generate their raw data in xml and then style them into (sometimes multi-page) html reports. Using a set of xpath expression, the relevant data could be extracted from the xml and stored with each build to be used in the dashboard. A flexible graphing engine would then be used to generate graphs. Threshold setting could be used to generate the summary status.

Note: Portlet support might be handy here as some of them may already have portlet to embed.