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.
The Metrics: Number of Ignored Tests
We're all guilty of having some skipped tests in out test suites. In this concise statement, Gil Zilberfeld clearly says what you should do with such tests!
The Internal Metrics of High Performance Mobile App
Ravisuriya Eswara explains how you can measure mobile app performance on many levels, depending on the context and the app's purpose.
Keeping tests valuable: Are the code coverage metrics reliable?
"When a metric becomes a goal, it stops being a good metric." — Goodhart's law.
Rafael Miguel explains how to use metrics, such as code coverage, right.
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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Build Quality Assurance Dashboards: Metrics, Design, and Tools
How do you make software testing metrics visible? Vincent Ferreira suggests what to measure and how to present it.
Additionally, Itzy Sabo wrote a great overview of the Uptime Guarantees — A Pragmatic Perspective.
