The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention

Conclusion

Dozens of books have been written on software metrics, and yet teams across the industry are continually stumped about what to measure. Designing a scorecard program is seemingly simple logic that is difficult to materialize because we are engineers and like numbers, logic, and predictability, so we tend to focus on metrics and not on goals. If you start by conceptualizing goals that are tied to your business objectives, you will measure the things that matter for your business, which could include code coverage, lines of code, inspection rates, defect densities, code churn, complexity, and so forth. Measuring these factors matters only if you can show how they are tied to your goals and objectives—how measuring them will improve ...