Quality Engineering Basics: Quality Metrics
Continuing the series explaining the essential parts of Quality Engineering, this time Brienna Ransom suggests different types of quality metrics on bug, product and automation levels.
Top 3 Useless Quality Metrics (And What to Measure Instead)
Daria Kotelenets makes several good points about the problem with common quality metrics, such as code coverage or the number of bugs. I must admit I've saved a few quotes from this article!
Three Metrics That Actually Matter When You're Testing Solo
Testers may need to take different approaches in different environments. As Katja Obring explains, this also applies to quality metrics.
It's related to Katja's experience From Drowning in Data to Driving Decisions: A Solo Tester’s Journey.
Measuring What Matters: Key Metrics for Mobile Apps
I liked the way Aya Akl outlined several mobile app quality metrics and hinted at how to measure them with certain tools.
Top QA Metrics for Software Quality
Short on ideas for quality metrics? Prashant Kumar got you covered. Not only he explained what the good traits of a metric are, but also listed out 34 of them. That's a lot of inspiration!
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Taking Quality to Next Level: Metrics for Improvement
Anton Angelov gave an interesting talk on software testing metrics, including meaningful tagging of bug reports that can help you in further analysis and improvements of the software development process.
Useful Test Automation Metrics You Should Be Doing
Running out of ideas for test automation metrics? Mark Mayo gives a few examples and describes when they can be useful.
Software Quality: From metrics to habits
In this insightful article, Flavien Huynh suggests setting up quality metrics for teams on five levels and links to other articles that give more context to each level.
On top of that, Antoine Craske gives an overview of the 5 New Metrics For Quality at Speed Test Automation.
Agile Testing: How can metrics help?
Fahim Sachedina explains how to do Agile testing right and lists out metrics that can help you measure the effectiveness of your tests.
Additionally, James Lyndsay came up with plenty of Questions about Metrics that may come in handy when evaluating them.
Team Workload Metrics: What are they good for?
Continuing the great series, Angela Riggs describes metrics that can help you assess your team's workload and capacity.
Make sure to check out the follow-up reads on Measuring Workload To Articulate Pain-Points and Workload Metrics Baby Steps.
