Advances in release readiness
P. Rotella Cisco Systems, Inc., Raleigh, NC, United States
Abstract
A key question in the software development industry is “how do we know when a release is ready to ship to customers?” Is the release sufficiently reliable, or are there too many residual bugs remaining? These questions are difficult to answer with any certainty. To help ensure reliability, many development teams rely on traditional metrics, such as severity 1 and 2 backlog levels, test case execution percentages, and pass rates for function testing. Often, these types of metrics are aggregated into a “quality index” that uses weighted averages to gauge “release health” throughout the lifecycle, but are mainly focused during the function and ...
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