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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Testing Metrics: Why Measure, What to Measure, and How to Measure
If you're running out of ideas what testing metrics might fit in your project, Johanna South comes to the rescue with 13 things you can potentially measure!
10 Quality Metrics That Let You Know Your Automation Is Successful
How do you know what value test automation brings to your projects and teams? Johanna South suggests using metrics to measure it and shares a handy list of examples.
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.
A Guide to the top 20 QA metrics that matter
Not all metrics are equal, nor are all of them applicable to every situation. But if you're looking for inspiration, Shreya Bose shares a lot of great examples.
Following up on that, Amy Reichert wrote about The top 5 agile QA metrics to improve your testing.
Beyond MTTR: 7 incident metrics that matter and 3 that don't
Have you heard of the DORA metrics? In this article, Ashley Sawatsky goes a step further describing several other metrics and explaining why to use them.
What's more, Rahul Parwal wrote about Testing & Quality Metrics — Pitfalls to Avoid.
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.
Testing Metrics: Are You Really Sure about the Quality of Your Product?
There's a lot to learn from this comprehensive overview of various software testing metrics by Andrey Ostapenko where he describes what type of metrics can be used and how they can be measured using various formulas and analytics.
I don’t think that means what you think it means (Enterprise Software Testing Metrics)
I enjoyed this article by Keith Klain where he shares his experience of working with metrics during one of his consulting projects, highlighting what's wrong with attempts to measure quality, and what's important about having valid metrics.
Open-source testing tools ranking based on their GitHub metrics, which one are you using?
Someone shared a comparison of the most popular open-source test tools from OSS Insights (cool tool, by the way) that rates them by a number of GitHub stars. Quite interesting to see the trends!
