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Software Quality
Howie Dow
SQGNE – November 14, 2007
• Then
– GQM is a method to help
• Else
– Look elsewhere
• But …
Measurement system
• There’s more
Business Measurement
– “Operational” – Questions
Q Q Q Q
• How to meet the goal 1 2 3 m
– “Quantitative” – Metrics
• Metrics to answer M M M M M
questions 1 2 3 4 k
• Top down
– Represented as a tree Q
• Two phases
M M
– GQM definition
– Deployment, analysis,
process adjustment and
check
• Use a table
With respect to (The quality attribute of How many user interface defects are
interest) reported
PM
Q1: What is Q2: How effective Q3: What Q4: What happened
our test time are we at finding about when we last added
now? defects? escapes? tests?
– Accuracy - validity
Q1: What is Q2: How effective Q3: What Q4: What happened
our test time are we at finding about when we last added
now? defects? escapes? tests?
M6: Number
M1: Number M2: Time for M3: Number M4: Number of tests
of tests run each test of tests that of defects added
per week find a defect M5: Number
(pass) found in unit
and stop of defects
test
found in
integration
test that
should have
been found
in unit test