Having good metrics is often a key to improving the quality of your product and services. But they may also be misleading, as Martin Ivison explains.
Over the past few weeks, Angela Riggs put together an insightful series of five articles about managing metrics, including some practical advice. You can read the following parts here: part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5.
Why Your Quality Metrics Might Be Lying to You
Mona M. Abd El-Rahman shares some valuable advice on how to be more precise in providing metrics regarding testing and quality. You can read more in the second part — Stop Lying to Yourself: Measure Quality That Impacts Users.
Continuous Integration Benchmark Metrics
How would you measure the robustness of your CI solution? Michael Küsters suggests six key metrics that can help you assess and improve the pipeline.
What 'quality' metrics are you all measuring?
Someone asked this question on Reddit, struggling to come up with valuable quality metrics that, sparked an interesting discussion in the comments.
Furthermore, Rodrigo Martin explains How we track test-related events at New Relic.
It’s a Trap! Avoid Focusing on Vanity Metrics in Software Testing
Looking to set up software testing metrics? Be careful with some of them as they may lead to bad conclusions. Mark Mayo shares great examples of it.
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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.
Confirmed: Code Coverage Is a Useless Management Metric
Code coverage is one of the most popular metrics used by teams. But this pure number often isn't enough, and it needs more context, as David Rodenas explains.
Similarly, Rafael Miguel highlights the same problem, including The Risks and Limitations of Relying Exclusively on Code Coverage Percentage.
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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.
