Emergency Room

Recently we started working with the idea of "Software ICU" where the progress and "health" of a project can be tracked. The idea is to takes information from the project such as coverage and commits and track these statistics over time. It's helpful to be able to see the history of project because that will in turn influence the future development of it. In our project we used Hackystat to assist us with this idea. I installed all the necessary tools which included Perl, JavaNCSS, DependencyFinder, and SCLC and followed the instructions. Then I verified that I was sending vital signs from the example project, stack-johnson, and duedates-yellow. Note that in order to send vitals signs, we had to update our build files and create a Hackstat project. We also created a daily build for our project. Some obstacles I encountered was the usual getting the enviromental variables correctly set and running the build files in eclipse because it's my prefered method rather than using the command prompt. So far I noted that in the Software Project Portfolio Analysis the weakest part of our project is coverage. Otherwise the others stats are generally good.