80% of average project costs indulge to fix challenges, bugs and other issues during the development of a project. No other business can afford this much failure in terms of budget and time. There can be many reasons for such failures; the focus of our discussion here is not to discuss the roots of such failures but how to improve effectiveness in terms of time and money. In agile methodology, transparency is a big challenge as there is no documentation. It's very important to pick effective metrics to use as you can't manage what you can't measure.
In Software quality testing, there is an important role of ‘Metrics' popularly known as Software Metrics;"softwaremetric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications "[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_metric]. Software metrics can be an answer to many questions, like planning budget, cost estimation, assuring quality of a product, software debugging, software performance optimization, and resource management.
Nowadays, metrics are gaining importance and acceptance; becoming more & more essential for improving, estimating and optimizing software productivity and quality. Testers are extensively using test metrics to evaluate the current health of a product;
Software Test Metrics help you to track actual efforts and time spent on the tasks and provides a quantitative measure of effectiveness and efficiency of testing efforts. They allow deeper understanding of the performance of the application and its behaviour and give a projection on how to go about testing activities by allowing us to set goals and predict future trends. There are many software test metrics which provide useful information in different phases of software testing life cycle.
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