Measuring the Success of a Continuous Testing Strategy

The building blocks of a solid test plan include the technology stack, customer profiles, and processes within the software development life cycle. Let’s go over how to measure the preceding plan and determine whether a software release is on track and meets the criteria of success.

Let’s start by looking at some common and important metrics and KPIs that can help assess the level of quality of our web application. These KPIs should be part of the DoD for a scoped software release.

Understanding the significance of metrics

Quality metrics should be part of the quality criteria section within any test plan document. Success, like quality, is a moment in time; therefore, it needs to be well monitored and structured in a way that decision-makers can analyze on demand.

There are various types of metrics that can be used based on product requirements, the market vertical that is being served, historical data, and any other category of metrics that is relevant to the business.

The following are 27 suggested metrics by categories that can be adopted by web application teams and used as a basis to add more specific organizational metrics. Let’s break these metrics into three categories:

• Speed

• Quality

• Cost