wiki:EstimationToolsPlugin

Version 16 (modified by Joachim Hoessler, 15 years ago) (diff)

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Tools for visualizing and quick editing of effort estimations

Description

EstimationTools includes macros that visualize remaining effort estimations, e.g., as Burndown Chart, as well as an extension that allows inline editing of estimations in the query view.

Requirements

The charts use Google's Chart API, hence no additional python modules are required. The HoursInPlaceEditor requires the XmlRpcPlugin.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for EstimationToolsPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download

Download the zipped source from [download:estimationtoolsplugin here].

Source

You can check out EstimationToolsPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Install

  • Trac 0.11 is supported in trunk.
  • The latest version for Trac 0.10 can be checked out here.
  • Deploy the egg:
    # python setup.py bdist_egg 
    # cp dist/*.egg /path/to/trac/env/plugins 
    
    Please see Trac's plug-in installation instructions for more details.
  • You need to add a custom field in your trac.ini to store the estimations for the current remaining effort:
    [ticket-custom]
    estimatedhours = text
    estimatedhours.label = Remaining Hours
    estimatedhours.value = 0
    
  • enable the plugin
    [components]
    estimationtools.* = enabled
    
  • further configurations go here
    # if you want to use another field than estimatedhours
    estimation_field = hours_remaining    
    # Set to a comma separated list of workflow states 
    # that count as zero in BurnDownChart. Defaults to 'closed'
    closed_states = closed,another_state  
    # Suffix used for estimations. Defaults to 'h'
    estimation_suffix = points        
    

Features

BurndownChart

Creates burn down chart for selected tickets.

This macro creates a chart that can be used to visualize the progress in a milestone (e.g., sprint or product backlog). For a given set of tickets and a time frame, the remaining estimated effort is calculated. The macro has the following parameters:

  • a comma-separated list of query parameters for the ticket selection, in the form "key=value" as specified in TracQuery#QueryLanguage.
  • startdate: mandatory parameter that specifies the start date of the period (ISO8601 format)
  • enddate: end date of the period. If omitted, it defaults to either the milestones (if given) `completed' date, or duedate, or today (in that order) (ISO8601 format)
  • width: width of resulting diagram (defaults to 800)
  • height: height of resulting diagram (defaults to 200)
  • color: color specified as 6-letter string of hexadecimal values in the format RRGGBB. Defaults to ff9900, a nice orange.
  • bgcolor: chart drawing area background color specified as 6-letter string of hexadecimal values in the format RRGGBB. Defaults to ffffff.
  • wecolor: chart drawing area background color for weekends specified as 6-letter string of hexadecimal values in the format RRGGBB. Defaults to f1f1f1.

Examples:

[[BurndownChart(milestone=Sprint 1, startdate=2008-01-01)]]
[[BurndownChart(milestone=Release 3.0|Sprint 1, startdate=2008-01-01, enddate=2008-01-15,
            width=600, height=100, color=0000ff)]]
Burndown Chart

HoursRemaining

Calculates remaining estimated hours for the queried tickets.

The macro accepts a comma-separated list of query parameters for the ticket selection, in the form "key=value" as specified in TracQuery#QueryLanguage. Example:

[[HoursRemaining(milestone=Sprint 1)]]

WorkloadChart

Creates workload chart for the selected tickets.

This macro creates a pie chart that shows the remaining estimated workload per ticket owner, and the remaining work days. It has the following parameters:

  • a comma-separated list of query parameters for the ticket selection, in the form "key=value" as specified in TracQuery#QueryLanguage.
  • width: width of resulting diagram (defaults to 400)
  • height: height of resulting diagram (defaults to 100)
  • color: color specified as 6-letter string of hexadecimal values in the format RRGGBB. Defaults to ff9900, a nice orange.

Examples:

[[WorkloadChart(milestone=Sprint 1)]]
[[WorkloadChart(milestone=Sprint 1, width=600, height=100, color=00ff00)]]
Workload Chart

HoursInPlaceEditor

This component allows to edit the remaining hours field directly in the query view.

Screenshot of HoursInPlaceEditor

Tips

Customising Queries

If you want to show the remaining hours column in your SQL queries, you need to join the ticket table with the ticket_custom table, which contains the custom fields. However, please note that the HoursInPlaceEditor won't work with these reports, but only with "custom queries".

SELECT
  ...                         # normal SELECT statement
  id AS ticket,
  ifnull(tc.value,'') as Hrs, # adds the value of estimatedhours in a column called Hrs, using '' if it doesn't exist.
  FROM ticket t
  LEFT JOIN ...               # other LEFT JOIN statements (in the default Trac queries) can be left in place
  LEFT JOIN ticket_custom tc ON tc.ticket = t.id and tc.name = 'estimatedhours'
  ...
  • You could change Hrs to 'Remaining Hours' to modify the column name.
  • You could change '' to '0' to show 0 hours for tickets that don't have a corresponding estimatedhours field.
  • Tickets may have an estimated hours field that is empty, in which case you may still see "blank"

Recent Changes

17585 by rjollos on 2019-11-21 23:21:31
TracEstimationTools 0.6.0dev: Bump version after release

The plugin has been published to pypi:TracEstimationTools.

Fixes #13664.

17584 by rjollos on 2019-11-21 23:19:10
TracEstimationTools 0.5.0dev: Add classifiers metadata

Refs #13664.

16741 by rjollos on 2017-08-22 20:22:58
TracEstimationTools 0.5.0dev: Cleanup whitespace
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Author/Contributors

Author: hoessler
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