Measuring QA Contribution to Your Business

Measuring QA Contribution to Your Business

How to ensure your software testing efforts will bear (the right) fruit

Quality Assurance (QA) is undoubtedly one of the most important elements in the Software Development Life Cycle. Software testing’s contribution to your business is significant. It will ensure you are meeting business requirements and customers’ expectations of your product. However, the QA efforts have to be well planned and correctly executed in order to leave a positive impact on your business. Otherwise, it can be a total waste of precious resources. Hence, you should invest time and effort in measuring the software testing work that is done.

But how can you know that you are on the right track to getting the most out of your QA process and achieving your business goals? The answer to this complicated question is metrics. QA and software testing metrics are highly valuable and will provide you with a fully transparent picture of their contribution to your business. Measuring your QA processes will clarify productivity, reveal weak spots, and help you learn from mistakes and improve. Nonetheless, software testing measurement is not an easy task. There is a large variety of testing metrics, so you should choose wisely since each measurement has a different purpose.

To help you select the most relevant metrics for your QA performance evaluation, we’ve created this ebook to guide you. You will learn what the contribution of a proper Quality Assurance process can do for your business, the importance of measurement, recommended QA metrics, and much more.

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