Software Metrics are a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications.
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Web Application Quality Metrics
Is there a defined list of web application quality metrics?
I'm looking for a list of metrics like performance, reliability, usability, ... with a reliable source (w3c, ...).
I want to describe how ...
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Attack surface metrics analyzer tool
I am trying to find a tool to measure vulnerability into my application ( each entry point and exit point into my application ) and then apply it to Manadhata's metrics
I found Microsoft surface ...
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Is it common to track defects found during code reviews?
In "Applied Software Measurement" and "Code Complete" the authors state concrete numbers for removal efficiency of defects found during code reviews (formal, informal etc).
Is it common to track ...
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Are metrics something important?
When I worked for a CMMI level 5 company, they used a predictive approach for almost all and for that same reason metrics were very important, they were the inputs for next projects. But now, I think ...
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What is a good KPI for software QA?
How can you measure the efficiency of the QA team? What KPIs would you set up?
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Classification of typical software bugs
Does anyone have a good source that classifies typical bugs found, hopefully with examples? For instance, one could classify bugs as:
User Interface Errors
Error Handling bugs
Boundary related ...
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What are the best practices for error seeding
Where I work we use an offshore company to augment several internal departments. I work in the QA team, and concerns have been aired about the level of confidence we can have in the test work we have ...
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What bug statistics are most useful? Why?
One of the managers at my company recently suggested that we should add a field in jira to track the number of times a bug gets reopened. I thought that it wasn't a very useful thing to keep track of ...
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Calculate peak concurrent users on a website
I am looking at setting up some website load testing scripts and need some help in finding a formula to estimate how many concurrent users are browsing a website at peak times, based on common metrics ...
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How to QA the QA candidates… what should I look for in a QA person
I run a software development company, I am considering hiring a QA person, what are the traits I should look for in a candiate? And what are the traits I should avoid?
(extra credit for how you can ...
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What are good metrics for a test team to use to start measuring their workload and ability to meet external deadlines?
The tester team where I work has a demanding customer base (we do business-to-business software, some of it ultimately public-facing, some business-facing), an application that's gone beyond anyone's ...
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What measures do you use to assess software quality.
Hopefully this isn't too subjective. I am curious to know what measures to use to assess the quality of a given software release. The measures would need to be applied to multiple different projects ...
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What kind of metrics can be used as an indicative of how well a piece of software meets its functional requirements?
For non-functional requirements as performance, one can find simple metrics to measure the software quality. If you want to know, for example, if your system's performance got better or worse after ...
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How do you calculate your return on investment on automated tests?
I've been looking at calculating the ROI on automated test on a project that I've been working on. However, I'm a little stuck when it comes to determining a good method for this. Simply counting the ...
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Measuring test performance when there is high variance
I am running single purpose performance tests on a daily basis. Currently, I run each test 3 times and average them out. But I get fluctuations from day to day which make it difficult to detect ...
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What are the best practices in quality assurance process measurement? [closed]
How do you measure quality assurance and quality of products in your teams? What metrics do you use? What tools do you use?
