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Software health reportschema 0.11.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-07-16 12:27 UTC
microsoft / vstest
Visual Studio Test Platform is the runner and engine that powers test explorer and vstest.console.
microsoft/vstest holds a health index of 96 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional band. It scores highest on Vitality (97/100) and lowest on Security (64/100). It was last updated today. 4 contributors account for most of its recent work.
96
overall / 100Software health index
Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.
96
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
Score profile
Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.
The weighted overall 84 is calibrated to 96 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).
Ownership
MicrosoftOrganization
125,262 followers8,194 public repossince Dec 2013
This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.
Metrics by category
Vitality
Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?
97
Development activity
95Exceptional
How it's scored
| 36/36 | Push recency — last push 0 days ago |
| 31.2/36 | Commit cadence — 45/52 weeks with commits |
| 18/18 | Commit volume — 434 commits in the last year |
| 10/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 30 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
Inputs used
| commits_last_year | 434 |
| human_commit_share | — |
| days_since_last_push | 0 |
| active_weeks_last_year | 45 |
Release discipline
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 27/27 | Ships releases — 100 releases published |
| 36/36 | Release recency — latest release 1 days ago |
| 27/27 | Release cadence — a release every ~31.7 days |
| 0/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data |
Inputs used
| releases_count | 100 |
| latest_release_tag | v18.8.1 |
| releases_from_tags | no |
| days_since_latest_release | 1 |
| mean_days_between_releases | 31.7 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.
Community & Adoption
Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?
89
Popularity & adoption
80Excellent
How it's scored
| 48.4/60 | Stars — 965 stars |
| 21.2/25 | Forks — 354 forks |
| 10.2/15 | Watchers — 70 watchers |
Inputs used
| forks | 354 |
| stars | 965 |
| watchers | 70 |
| growth_state | unverified |
| growth_factor_pct | 100 |
| growth_unverified_reason | no_history |
Community health
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 22.5/22.5 | README |
| 22.5/22.5 | License — recognized license (MIT) |
| 18/18 | CONTRIBUTING guide |
| 13.5/13.5 | Code of conduct |
| 7.2/7.2 | Issue template |
| 6.3/6.3 | PR template |
Inputs used
| has_readme | yes |
| has_license | yes |
| readme_badges | — |
| has_contributing | yes |
| has_issue_template | yes |
| has_code_of_conduct | yes |
| readme_badge_services | — |
| has_pull_request_template | yes |
Sustainability & Governance
Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?
89
Maintainer resilience (bus factor)
84Excellent
How it's scored
| 43.2/54 | Bus factor — 4 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| 16.8/22.5 | Commit distribution — top contributor authored 25% of commits |
| 13.5/13.5 | Contributor breadth — 100 contributors |
| 10/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 18 contributing companies or organizations |
Inputs used
| bus_factor | 4 |
| contributors_sampled | 100 |
| top_contributor_share | 0.253 |
Issue & PR responsiveness
83Excellent
How it's scored
| 41.5/42 | Issue resolution — 99% of issues closed |
| 26.4/30 | PR acceptance — 3,682/4,188 decided PRs merged |
| 0/13 | Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| 4.5/15 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 9/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 3 |
Inputs used
| merged_prs | 3,682 |
| open_issues | 30 |
| closed_issues | 2,209 |
| prs_merged_7d | — |
| prs_decided_7d | — |
| prs_merged_30d | — |
| prs_decided_30d | — |
| issue_closed_ratio | 0.987 |
| closed_unmerged_prs | 506 |
| first_time_authors_30d | — |
| first_time_prs_merged_30d | — |
| first_time_prs_decided_30d | — |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.
Ownership & stewardship
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 30/30 | Ownership backing — organization-owned |
| 0/20 | Verified domain — verified-domain status not read for this organization |
| 25/25 | Owner reach — 125,262 followers of microsoft |
| 25/25 | Track record — 8,194 public repos, account ~12 yr old |
Inputs used
| followers | 125,262 |
| owner_type | Organization |
| is_verified | — |
| owner_login | microsoft |
| public_repos | 8,194 |
| account_age_days | 4,600 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.
Engineering Quality
Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?
75
Engineering practices
68Good
How it's scored
| 24/24 | CI workflows — 17 workflow(s) |
| 24/24 | Tests present |
| 0/16 | Linter config |
| 0/9.6 | Pre-commit hooks |
| 6.4/6.4 | .editorconfig |
| 14/20 | OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 23 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 7 |
Inputs used
| has_ci | yes |
| has_tests | yes |
| has_editorconfig | yes |
| has_linter_config | no |
| has_precommit_config | no |
Documentation
85Excellent
How it's scored
| 30/30 | README |
| 25/25 | Documentation directory |
| 0/15 | Documentation / homepage site |
| 10/10 | Repository description |
| 10/10 | Topics — 6 topics |
| 10/10 | Wiki |
Inputs used
| topics | visual-studio, testing-tools, testing, test-runner, unit-testing, dotnet |
| has_wiki | yes |
| homepage | — |
| docs_site | — |
| has_readme | yes |
| has_docs_dir | yes |
| has_description | yes |
Security
Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?
64
Security posture
64Moderate
How it's scored
| 0/7.5 | Binary-Artifacts — binaries present in source code |
| 1.5/7.5 | Branch-Protection — branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| 1.8/2.5 | CI-Tests — 23 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 7 |
| 0/2.5 | CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| 2.2/7.5 | Code-Review — Found 9/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 3 |
| 2.5/2.5 | Contributors — project has 18 contributing companies or organizations |
| 10/10 | Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| 7.5/7.5 | Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected |
| 0/5 | Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed |
| 2.5/2.5 | License — license file detected |
| 7.5/7.5 | Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 30 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| 0/5 | Packaging — no data |
| 4.5/5 | Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9 |
| 0/5 | SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| 5/5 | Security-Policy — security policy file detected |
| 0/7.5 | Signed-Releases — no data |
| 6.8/7.5 | Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| 7.5/7.5 | Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |
Inputs used
| source | openssf_scorecard |
| checks_evaluated | 16 |
| scorecard_version | v5.5.0 |
| checks_inconclusive | 2 |
| scorecard_aggregate | 6.4 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.
AI Readiness
How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.
78
Agent context & guidance
75Good
How it's scored
| 45/45 | Agent instructions — .github/copilot-instructions.md, .github/instructions/acceptance-tests.instructions.md, .github/instructions/blame-datacollector.instructions.md, .github/instructions/communicationutilities.instructions.md, .github/instructions/crossplatengine.instructions.md, .github/instructions/eng.instructions.md, .github/instructions/objectmodel.instructions.md, .github/instructions/testhost.instructions.md, .github/instructions/vstest-console.instructions.md, AGENTS.md, eng/common/AGENTS.md |
| 0/15 | Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) |
| 0/40 | Legible commit history — no data |
Inputs used
| has_llms_txt | no |
| llms_txt_url | — |
| legible_history_share | — |
| agent_instruction_files | .github/copilot-instructions.md, .github/instructions/acceptance-tests.instructions.md, .github/instructions/blame-datacollector.instructions.md, .github/instructions/communicationutilities.instructions.md, .github/instructions/crossplatengine.instructions.md, .github/instructions/eng.instructions.md, .github/instructions/objectmodel.instructions.md, .github/instructions/testhost.instructions.md, .github/instructions/vstest-console.instructions.md, AGENTS.md, eng/common/AGENTS.md |
| agent_instruction_max_bytes | 7,026 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.
Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)
63Moderate
How it's scored
| 0/18 | One-command bootstrap |
| 22/22 | Automated tests |
| 0/11 | Lint / format config |
| 11/11 | Static type checking — C# (statically typed) |
| 10/10 | Reproducible environment — devcontainer |
| 0/10 | Demonstrated agent practice — no data |
| 5/8 | Automated maintenance — dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits |
| 9/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9 |
Inputs used
| has_nix | no |
| has_tests | yes |
| lockfiles | — |
| has_dockerfile | no |
| typed_language | yes |
| bootstrap_files | — |
| has_devcontainer | yes |
| has_linter_config | no |
| typecheck_configs | — |
| agent_commit_share | — |
| toolchain_manifests | — |
| dependency_bot_commit_share | 0 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice. Remaining weights renormalized.
Code legibility for models
99Exceptional
How it's scored
| 45/45 | Type-checkable code — C# (statically typed) |
| 54.4/55 | Manageable file sizes — 17/1,472 source files over 60KB |
Inputs used
| primary_language | C# |
| largest_source_bytes | 1,599,364 |
| source_files_sampled | 1,472 |
| oversized_source_files | 17 |
Machine-readable interfaces
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 0/40 | API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software |
| 0/20 | MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software |
| 40/40 | Runnable examples — samples |
Inputs used
| example_dirs | samples |
| has_mcp_signal | no |
| api_schema_files | — |
| interfaces_expected_of | — |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.
Key facts
965GitHub stars
100contributors
434commits, last 12 months
0days since last push
100releases
4bus factor
30open issues
—package ecosystems
More detail
OpenSSF Scorecard 6.4 / 10
6.4aggregate
Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).
| 0 | Binary-Artifacts | binaries present in source code |
| 2 | Branch-Protection | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| 7 | CI-Tests | 23 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 7 |
| 0 | CII-Best-Practices | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| 3 | Code-Review | Found 9/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 3 |
| 10 | Contributors | project has 18 contributing companies or organizations |
| 10 | Dangerous-Workflow | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| 10 | Dependency-Update-Tool | update tool detected |
| 0 | Fuzzing | project is not fuzzed |
| 10 | License | license file detected |
| 10 | Maintained | 30 commit(s) and 30 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| n/a | Packaging | packaging workflow not detected |
| 9 | Pinned-Dependencies | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 9 |
| 0 | SAST | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| 10 | Security-Policy | security policy file detected |
| n/a | Signed-Releases | no releases found |
| 9 | Token-Permissions | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| 10 | Vulnerabilities | 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |
All dependencies 77
Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 0 direct and 77 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.
| Registry | Package | Version | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| NuGet | AwesomeAssertions | — | indirect |
| NuGet | coverlet.collector | — | indirect |
| NuGet | coverlet.collector | 1.2.0 | indirect |
| NuGet | Drop.App | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Build.Framework | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Build.Utilities.Core | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.CodeAnalysis | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.CodeCoverage | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.CodeCoverage.Core | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.CodeCoverage.IO | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Diagnostics.NETCore.Client | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent | 1.0.41 | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.DotNet.IBCMerge | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyModel | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Extensions.FileSystemGlobbing | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Internal.CodeCoverage | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Internal.Dia | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Internal.Intellitrace | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Internal.Intellitrace.Extensions | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Internal.TestPlatform.Extensions | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.IO.Redist | 6.0.1 | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.ManifestTool.CrossPlatform | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk | 17.12.0 | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.QualityTools.Testing.Fakes.TestRunnerHarness | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Testing.Platform | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Testing.Platform.MSBuild | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.TestPlatform | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.TestPlatform.CLI | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.TestPlatform.Filter.Source | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.TestPlatform.ObjectModel | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.TestPlatform.ObjectModel | 18.0.1 | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.TestPlatform.TestAsset.NativeCPP | 2.0.0 | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.ArchitectureTools.PEReader | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Diagnostics.Utilities | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Enterprise.AspNetHelper | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Interop | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudio.Utilities.Internal | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudioEng.MicroBuild.Core | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VisualStudioEng.MicroBuild.Plugins.SwixBuild | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.VSSDK.BuildTools | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Win32.Registry | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Moq | — | indirect |
| NuGet | MSTest.TestAdapter | — | indirect |
| NuGet | MSTest.TestAdapter | 1.0.0-preview | indirect |
| NuGet | MSTest.TestAdapter | 3.3.1 | indirect |
| NuGet | MSTest.TestAdapter | 3.7.1 | indirect |
| NuGet | MSTest.TestAdapter | 3.9.2 | indirect |
| NuGet | MSTest.TestFramework | — | indirect |
| NuGet | MSTest.TestFramework | 1.0.0-preview | indirect |
| NuGet | MSTest.TestFramework | 3.3.1 | indirect |
| NuGet | MSTest.TestFramework | 3.7.1 | indirect |
| NuGet | MSTest.TestFramework | 3.9.2 | indirect |
| NuGet | NETStandard.Library | 2.0.3 | indirect |
| NuGet | Newtonsoft.Json | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Newtonsoft.Json | 13.0.3 | indirect |
| NuGet | NuGet.Versioning | 6.1.0 | indirect |
| NuGet | NUnit | — | indirect |
| NuGet | NUnit.ConsoleRunner | — | indirect |
| NuGet | NUnit3TestAdapter | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Procdump | 0.0.1 | indirect |
| NuGet | System.Collections.Immutable | — | indirect |
| NuGet | System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource | — | indirect |
| NuGet | System.Diagnostics.EventLog | 5.0.0 | indirect |
| NuGet | System.Reflection.Metadata | — | indirect |
| NuGet | System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation | 4.3.0 | indirect |
| NuGet | System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates | 4.1.2 | indirect |
| NuGet | System.Security.Principal.Windows | — | indirect |
| NuGet | System.Text.Json | 9.0.1 | indirect |
| NuGet | System.Text.RegularExpressions | 4.3.1 | indirect |
| NuGet | System.ValueTuple | 4.5.0 | indirect |
| NuGet | xunit | — | indirect |
| NuGet | xunit.runner.console | — | indirect |
| NuGet | xunit.runner.visualstudio | — | indirect |
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Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.
Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.11.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.
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