How Do Employers Measure a QA Tester/Engineer's Proficiency?
Both managers and testers may ask themselves this question. It's hard, and there's probably no one straightforward answer, but it's interesting to see what people suggest.
This discussion continues in another thread about Metrics to assess testers.
Cypress Performance Plugin "cypress-performance": A Guide to Automate the Web Performance Testing
It turns out you can use Cypress for web app performance testing, too. How? Valiantsin Lutchanka created a handy plugin cypress-performance that measures and asserts web performance metrics.
In this interesting presentation, Gil Zilberfeld explains the process of implementing a quality metrics dashboard for API teams and what benefits it brought to them.
Using Analytics: Why This Is Important for QA Professionals
Luciana Mores Bernardi shares some valuable thoughts on why analytics can help you better understand your users and which metrics you can use to improve quality.
This is an amazing example of a bug quality dashboard by Doron Bar. Not only he shows how it looks, but also explains every graph and metric.
Three Ways To Measure Unit Testing Effectiveness
Unit testing is the foundation of the test pyramid. Eduardo Fischer suggests three ways of assessing how effective your unit tests are using metrics and tools.
The Most Important KPI for a Software QA Engineer (You Might Not Like It...)
Here's an interesting, 8-minute video by Nick Gilbert discussing why quality metrics are not easy to define and which ones you should and shouldn't use.
Why test coverage targets backfire
Michael Küsters uses insightful examples to show why relying solely on test coverage metrics might not tell us the full story about the quality of our product.
Why test coverage targets backfire
Some believe that 100% coverage is what they should strive to achieve. Michael Küsters explains the pitfalls of this approach and coverage metrics in general.
How do we measure the Performance of a Microservice, Service, or Server?
Srinath Perera describes two main metrics that matter in performance testing and then gives a few examples of running such tests.
