Effective Test Metrics for Test Strategy Evolution
Yanping Chen · 2008
How to measure a test process is a required competence for an effective software test manager. Effective test process measurement is useful for designing and evaluating a cost-effective test strategy. Although existing research has addressed many metrics for those purposes, most metrics are used independently. This paper summarizes a test process measurement project of the IBM Electronic Commerce Development (ECD) test teams, and analyzes the effectiveness of a set of complementary metrics for cost, time, and quality to measure the quality of test process based on the results of the project. Further discussions about implementation problems, test wisdom learned in the project, and costeffectiveness of the measurement activities and metrics are presented. 1