Testing of software products produces a large volume of useful information that can be used to analyze the process, product quality, and the productivity of the team. ALM provides the metrics that teams find most useful in their work:
- Error table — use the chart to analyze progress in resolving critical errors and to identify the process stages at which the largest number of critical errors accumulates.
- Weekly history of error discovery — use the report to detect an imbalance in the rate at which testers discover errors. If a significant number of errors have been found, the build should be returned to the developers for stabilization. As the total number of errors found decreases, forecast the release date.
- Issue distribution by priority — with this chart you can, for example, see the dynamics of critical errors appearing in the project as a whole or within a specific release.
- Defect convergence chart — the convergence chart makes it possible to assess the dynamics of logging new defects and of fixing defects, and also to visualize the total number of defects that are in the added and completed states.
- Test design productivity — use the report to analyze the volume of changes in the test documentation, to identify when the test documentation was developed, and to compare the productivity of test designers.
- Test documentation development chart — use the chart to monitor preparation of test documentation in a release or a project. Before testing of the next product release begins, the required sections of the test documentation should already have been prepared.