This page last changed on May 26, 2010 by edawson.

This page contains instructions on how to use the Reports tab in Crucible to see lists of people whose action is required on open reviews. These are known as 'blockers'.

FishEye Reports:

Viewing the 'Review Blockers' report

To view a list of people who have open reviews assigned to them, click the 'Reports' tab at the top of the page. The 'Review Blockers' report will appear.

Screenshot: 'Review Blockers' Report

You can:

  • click a user's name to go to their 'Activity' screen.
  • click a number in the 'To Complete' or 'To Summarize' column to go to the list of reviews waiting to be completed/summarized by the user.

Viewing the 'JIRA Review Blockers' report

The 'JIRA Review Blockers' report shows you a list of users whose action is required on open reviews, for a particular set of JIRA issues. The reviews must be explicitly linked to a JIRA issue or mention a JIRA issue key in the summary or the objectives.

To view the 'JIRA Review Blockers' report:

  1. In JIRA,
    1. Click the 'Issues' tab to search for the issues in which you are interested.
      For more information, see the JIRA documentation on Searching for Issues and Advanced Searching.
    2. On the JIRA 'Issue Navigator' screen, with your search results displayed, click the 'Views' menu and select 'XML'.
      For more information, see the JIRA documentation on Displaying Search Results in XML.
    3. When the XML appears on the screen, copy the URL.
  2. In Crucible,
    1. Click the 'Reports' tab at the top of the page. The 'Review Blockers' report will appear.
    2. Click the 'JIRA Review Blockers' tab at the top of the report. The 'JIRA Review Blockers' report will appear.
    3. In the 'JIRA Issue Navigator (XML) URL' field, paste the URL you copied previously.
    4. (Optional) If your practice is to set your JIRA issue to a particular Status while its Crucible review is in progress, type the name of the Status in the 'JIRA "Under Review" workflow step' field.
    5. Click the 'Go' button. The 'JIRA Review Blockers' report will appear.
      If the report doesn't contain the data you expected, you may need to authenticate (i.e. login) to the JIRA server. For more information, please see the JIRA documentation on Accessing protected data.

Screenshot: 'Review Blockers' Report

The columns in the 'JIRA Review Blockers' report show the following, for the given set of JIRA issues:

  • A list of JIRA issues for which one or more Crucible reviewers has not completed their review.
  • A list of users who have an incomplete Crucible review that relates to a JIRA issue.
  • A list of open JIRA issues for which a Crucible review is closed, and vice versa.
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