Welcome to the project homepage for the Hackystat Visual Studio sensor!

Hackystat-Sensor-VisualStudio is a development project to build a Hackystat sensor that collects software development metrics for Microsoft Visual Studio.

Hackystat is an open source framework for collection and analysis of software development process and product data. Data collected by this sensor will be sent to a web service called the Hackystat SensorBase for storage and can be accessed through the Project Browser.

This sensor is intended to be easy to setup and collection of data is done in an unobtrusive manner. After the first configuration of the sensor in Visual Studio to provide the developer's Hackystat account information, developers do not have to be clicking any button or typing in any commands again to control the sensor's activity. The sensor will automatically collect data in the background as the developer works on his/her projects in Visual Studio. Data is sent to the server regularly if wireless connection is detected. Otherwise, data will be buffered locally until the data can be sent to the server.

Featured documentation are listed below. For information regarding acquisitions, milestones, resources, risks, and use cases please see our wiki pages.