What are testing metrics and what do they affect?
A metric is a method for measuring the quality and controlling the stages of software testing.
A metric allows manual or automatic collection and control of information on errors found, followed by an evaluation to select an appropriate testing approach. With the help of a metric you can visually assess the progress of testing and bug fixing.
Software testing metrics define:
Number of open/closed bugs
Number of newly opened and retested bugs
Number of unconfirmed bugs
Number of bugs by severity
Number of bugs by priority of execution
The metrics help you understand at what stage of testing the product is. The number of open bugs allows you to determine the quality level of a program’s development. The number of closed bugs shows the quality of bug fixing. The number of unconfirmed bugs shows the degree of incorrect bug description by the tester or quick and not very good bug fixing. Besides, metrics can show the results of test cases determining the number of successfully passed tests and the number of unsuccessful ones.
As a result, metrics allow you to monitor the state of your software and all testing processes to simplify bug detection and fixing. Do you resort to using metrics in your project?
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