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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Need a Testing Metric? Put Points on Your Test Cases
Mas Kono and Paul Grizzaffi suggest a new metric using test case points to track testing progress more effectively by prioritising the most important ones.
Furthermore, Ihan Dilnath emphasises that Tests that validate business value are tests that add business value.
From Data to Decisions: My AI-Driven QA Metrics Framework Journey
Amr Salem created an intriguing automated process for collecting quality metrics and shares it with us in this detailed overview.
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.
A Way to Effectiveness: Release Quality, Volume and Speed in 1 QA Metric
Gleb Sarkisov came up with a modified formula for calculating the Defect Density metric and described this process in detail.
Furthermore, Dmytro Stekanov wrote a great article on Ensuring Quality in the Product Backlog: The Role of QA in Refinement.
A Deep Dive into Quality Metrics
If you're looking for inspiration on quality metrics, this is a fine overview by Damián Moga who grouped them into three categories: QA process, incident management and quality culture.
