Landing page

When you first log in, you will be presented with the "landing page". The contents of this page depend on the number of Applications that are present in the Measurement schema. The behavior of the Dashboard differs depending on whether you are looking at a Single Application or Multi Applications. 

The Default View drop-down option lets you select two different views in the landing page:

• Standard tile layout using AIP related data
• Tiles using ISO-5055 data generated by the ISO-5055 Index extension (new in ≥ 1.27 / ≥ 2.1.0) - see Manual configuration of Dashboard tiles using ISO-5055 data for more information

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Single Application

If snapshot data is available for only one Application, you will be presented with the Single Application landing page - the Application name is displayed at the top as highlighted below.

Following screen is displayed when Default View is selected from the drop-down. Click to enlarge

Following screen is displayed when ISO-555 View is selected from the drop-down. Click to enlarge:

Multiple Applications

If snapshot data for Multiple Applications is available, you will be presented with the Multi Application landing page:

Following screen is displayed when Default View is selected from the drop-down. Click to enlarge:

Following screen is displayed when ISO-555 View is selected from the drop-down. Click to enlarge:

In either view, the number of applications is highlighted:

To view data for an individual Application, click the "+" button underneath the Health Dashboard and select the one you require. You will then be taken to the Application landing page:

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Left hand navigation options

In every screen in the dashboard, the icons shown above are displayed. When clicked they will behave as follows:

Username menu

In every screen in the Dashboard, a username button will be visible displaying the user's username. Clicking the button will display a drop down menu whose contents depends on the role granted to the username (see User roles):

Scope selection

There are various options that enable you to choose what data is displayed in the Health Dashboard:

Snapshot selector

By default, the CAST Health Dashboard will always display data from the most recent snapshot available for all Applications. In other words:

• When you have multiple Applications, the values you see are an aggregation of the data from the most recent snapshot for all Applications
• When you only have one Application, the values you see are taken from the most recent snapshot of the Application

However, when working at Application level (i.e. you have drilled down from the Multi-application landing page or you only have one Application) you can choose the snapshot data you would like to see by using the dropdown list:

As soon as you select the snapshot, the data in the page will update accordingly.

Assessment Model selector

By default, the CAST Health Dashboard will display data from the default AIP Assessment Model, showing the default Health Measure Technical Criterial when drilling down at single application level:

An additional Assessment Model view is available out of the box, displaying the legacy Best Practices Technical Criteria:

Additional Industry Standards Assessment Models

If your CAST Administrator has installed any of the following Industry Standards index extensions for a particular Application and generated a new snapshot, then additional Assessment Models will be available in the drop down:

• CISQ
• MIPS Reduction
• OMG-ASCQM
• OWASP

For example:

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Module and Technology selector

By default, data from all Modules and Technologies are displayed, i.e there is no module scope selection in place. Module and technology sector is available at single Application level when drilling down into the Health Measures, and Technical Debt (OMG) sections:

If there are many modules, you can search using the search field by entering the required characters - matching is performed on the characters entered, for example, entering "j" will match the following in this example:

Time period selection

By default, at both multi and single application level, the Health Dashboard will display data for the last 12 months for SizingMeasureEvolution tiles (based on evolution) in the Overview section and for all tiles in the Trends section - i.e tiles will display the evolution of the data over the period of time selected:

When selecting a time period, the tiles that will be affected will be shown active, those unaffected by the time period selection will be greyed out:

Filters

By default, CAST will automatically assign the Category "Technologies" and the technology "Tags" to your Applications. In other words (and for example), Applications containing Cobol source code will be tagged with "Cobol" in the "Technologies" Category. You can see this in action at multi application level only (click the "+" button to view the filtering categories):

When using the filtering capabilities, results are displayed on an Application basis. So, for example, if you select "ABAP" in the Technologies category, the Health Dashboard will automatically update and display only those Applications that contain that particular Technology:

You can also filter within specific measure information drill down pages at multi application level based on Categories (auto and manually defined). For example!

Note that if your administrator has created a Category and no Applications have been assigned a Tag within that category, when filtering on that Category, the Health Dashboard will display "No values to display" as follows:

Note about tags and categories as tile scopes

It is possible to set a specific tag / category on a specific tile (see Scope under Common plugin parameters in Health Dashboard tile management for more information) as a scope. When a tile has a tag / category defined as a scope, the tile will be displayed regardless of the filter applied. The tag will also be mentioned in the tile itself:

Combining filters

You can filter on one or more tags in the same category:

Or on one or more tags from multiple categories:

Resetting a filter

If you have configured a filter, the easiest way to reset it is to remove the tags one by one by:

• clicking the X button as highlighted below:

• using the Unselect All button:

Violation filters

At single application level, all drill down details pages that list Rule violations include a check box (Only rules with violations) that enables you to filter out any Rules that do not have any violations. This allows you to focus on the information you need:

Grouping by critical rules

At single application level, all drill down details pages that list Rule violations include a check box (Only critical rules) that enables you to group together all Quality Rules that are designated as "critical":

Zoom feature for multi column display

At multi application level, when you click specific tiles in the Health Dashboard (for example the default "Robustness" tile (a QualityIndicatorResults type tile)), the drill down details will display one column per Application:

This display can make reading the details of each column very difficult particularly if you have many applications. If this is the case you can select (i.e. hold the left mouse button down and select the Applications you require) a certain number of Applications and the dashboard will zoom into them. In the example below, just two Applications have been selected, resulting in a zoom into six applications:

Engineering Dashboard drill down

If you are licensed to do so and your CAST Administrator has configured access (see Configure access to the Engineering Dashboard and from the Health Dashboard in Standalone Health Dashboard deployment), you can drill down into the Engineering Dashboard to obtain more detailed information about a specific Application or Quality indicator. There are two ways to do so:

What happens when you click the microscope?

• A warning will then be displayed, click Leaving to ED to continue:

• The login screen for the Engineering Dashboard (ED) will now be displayed in a new tab.
• Login with the credentials supplied by your CAST AI Administrator if required.
• You will now be taken to the appropriate location in the target dashboard, for example the Rule or the Health Measure, depending on the item that was in focus when you clicked on the microscope icon.

Dashboard Release Version

The Dashboard release version (in the place of build number) is provided in the bottom right corner of each page in the Health Dashboard. This number can be provided to CAST Support to help troubleshoot any issues you may have.