Category Archives: Software Metrics

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  State of Testing Survey 2016 – Announced

  In 2015 PractiTest and Tea Time with Testers put together the State of Testing Survey, which allowed the community to discuss their roles, frameworks used, thoughts and much more. There was almost 900 participants last year. After the survey was done a report was published with some very interesting stats and information. It’s now 2015 […]

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  State of Testing Survey 2015 – Open

  In our previous post we discussed what the “State of Testing 2015 Survey” is. The survey is open until February 2, 2015. It’s your chance to speak out and hear from others in the community. The survey allows us to get a snapshot of what is happening today and how we have evolved as well […]

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  State of Testing Survey 2015 – Announced

  In 2013 PractiTest and Tea Time with Testers put together the State of Testing Survey, which allowed the community to discuss their roles, frameworks used, thoughts and much more. After the survey was done a report was published with some very interesting stats and information. It’s now 2015 and it’s time for us to revisit […]

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  Tool Reports Are Worthless

  You probably have multiple tools that are used within your organization. All those tools probably have a report of some kind but those reports are worthless when you can’t see what’s causing items to occur. Management teams don’t look at metrics/reports just to see what’s going on, they also look at reports to make positive […]

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  Software Testing Types Crossword

  Our latest crossword puzzle on Software Testing Types has been published on Women Testers. Below is the published post. A new year gift to all our readers in the form of this Crossword puzzle. About Crossword – A word which is cross, yes literally. Makes you stretch your imagination, flex the grey matter and scribble / […]

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  Frosty The Tester

  I thought we’d try a different kind of post today, one that deals with Frosty the Tester. Keep in mind that I’m not a musician so the song doesn’t really rhyme but I hope you still enjoy it. Frosty the tester was a happy guy with a test suite here and a script there and […]

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  Reaching the Purple Standard

  A couple of weeks ago Jean Ann Harrison & Jay Philips presented the “Reaching the Purple Standard” at STPCon Fall 2014. Below is the info from the presentation and the corresponding slides: Session Info: Everyone is always talking about the gold standard or the best in class, but how about taking it even further? Let’s […]

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• Test Coverage: An Art and a Science

  Looking for information on test coverage? Jean Ann Harrison & Jay Philips presented the “Test Coverage: An Art and a Science” at CAST 2014. Below is the info from the presentation and the corresponding slides: Session Info: How do you determine the test coverage of your application per project? Do you have strategies in place? […]

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  Pick One, Just One

  There are so many different test metrics available but not all of them are needed all the time. So today we ask you, if you had to pick only one metric to show testing status, which one would you choose & why? Use the comments section below to tell us which metric you would choose.

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• How To Choose The Best Chart For Your Data

  There are lots of whitepapers, presentations & blogs out on the Internet that tell you to use one chart type versus another. It’s great that there are so many chart types available but do you know when to use a bar chart versus a line chart? This presentation will provide you information so the next […]

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