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Use the Rejected Defect Ratio to Improve Bug Reporting There are many metrics to measure the effectiveness of a testing team. One is the rejected defect ratio, or the number of rejected bug reports divided by the total submitted bug reports. You may think you want zero rejected bugs, but there are several reasons that’s not the case. Let's look at types of rejected bugs, see how they contribute to the rejected defect ratio, and explore the right ratio for your team. |
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Are You Quantifying Your Value with Test Metrics? On a fairly regular basis, test and QA management have to explain their value and role to their clients. Sanjay Zalavadia writes that in these situations you must choose metrics that provide insight into what you are doing instead of obscuring it. This will help tell your story in a compelling way. |
Interviews
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How to Use Your Data in an Agile Environment: An Interview with Larry Maccherone
Podcast
In this interview, Larry Maccherone, the director of analytics and research at AgileCraft, explains how you can better use data within your software team. He digs into metrics and measurements within an agile environment and how to determine what data is valuable. |
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Test Measurements, Metrics, and Automation: An Interview with Mike Sowers
Video
In this interview, TechWell's Mike Sowers goes in depth on the measurements, metrics, and management side of testing. He discusses both the good and the bad on his test automation journey in large and small enterprises and communicates the real challenges. |
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Useful Metrics and the Problem with Performance Testing Programs: An Interview with Scott Barber
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Scott Barber is the chief performance evangelist for SmartBear and an author of several books, including Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications. In this interview, Scott chats about useful test metrics, communication, and the problem with performance testing programs. |
Conference Presentations
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Agile Metrics: Make Better Decisions with Data
Slideshow
Some consider measurement in agile development destructive—or at the very least useless. Larry Maccherone disagrees and offers insight into how you can use metrics in an agile environment to make life better. How do you know when you are ready to introduce metrics into the environment? |
Larry Maccherone
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Testers, Use Metrics Wisely or Don’t Use Them at All
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For thousands of years, human language has provided us with beautiful and complex ways of sharing important ideas. At the same time, language can derail attempts to communicate even the most basic pieces of critical information. We testers are the heralds of vast amounts of data, and... |
Deborah Kennedy, Aditi Technologies
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Metrics That Matter
Slideshow
Imagine you’re a test manager starting a new assignment. On the first day of work, you’re presented with a list of metrics you are to report. Soon, you realize that most of the metrics are not really connected to what should be measured. Or, consider the situation where you’re told that... |
Pablo Garcia, Redmind
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Lessons Learned from Forty-five Years of Software Measurement
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Counting is easy. However, what makes measurement really valuable-and really hard to get right-is knowing what to count and what to do with the results. If your organization is mostly tracking resource usage, costs, and schedule data, it is making a big mistake. What about the users? The customers? The overall business strategy? Sharing the lessons he has learned from fighting-and surviving-many software measurement battles, Ed Weller offers a step-by-step approach for implementing a practical and valuable metrics program. After understanding what measures are most important to the business strategy and all stakeholders, the next step is to decide what data supports those measures and how to capture it. With data in hand, you can create simple and informative ways to make the resulting metrics visible and easy to digest. The biggest challenges-avoidance, disbelief, and rationalization-come next. |
Edward Weller, Integrated Productivity Solutions, LLC
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