The following comment has been added to this issue: Author: Nascif A. Abousalh-Neto Created: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 2:17 AM Body: Another idea on the same topic: aggregators for code inspectors (PMD, CheckStyle, FindBugs) provide only one value, the total sum of errors or violations for all files.
Although this is useful, the distribution of the errors is lost. For example, "1000" doesn't tell you if you have 2 errors in each of 500 files or 999 errors in one and 1 in another. I think an aggregator that would calculate some descriptive statistics of the values would be more helpful; for example the median and deviations from it. Those numbers could be presented in a single bar chart, similar to the progress bar used now for percentages. Let's say the aggregator returns a series of numbers in the format N1:N2:N3:N4 (which could represent first deviation, median, second deviation and total). We would draw a chart with 4 segments in different colors, scaled to match the default bar width. For a nice demo on how to read mean ane median values, check: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/descriptive/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- View this comment: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPDASHBOARD-2?page=comments#action_25056 --------------------------------------------------------------------- View the issue: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPDASHBOARD-2 Here is an overview of the issue: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: MPDASHBOARD-2 Summary: Provide value highlighting Type: Wish Status: Unassigned Priority: Major Original Estimate: Unknown Time Spent: Unknown Remaining: Unknown Project: maven-dashboard-plugin Assignee: Reporter: Sean Timm Created: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 11:41 AM Updated: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 2:17 AM Description: Provide a way to highlight values based on specified criteria... For example, CS error background should be red if any found, otherwise green... Or show yellow background on anything less than 80%. --------------------------------------------------------------------- JIRA INFORMATION: This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa If you want more information on JIRA, or have a bug to report see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]