The Testing Dashboard: Becoming and Information Provider

Primary concerns for test managers are keeping the testing on schedule, meeting test objectives, making sure tests are effective, and satisfying stakeholders. Like taking a trip by car, you have a destination and only so many resources to get there. By keeping an eye on your car's dashboard, you know your status anywhere along the way. Likewise in testing, a dashboard is an effective way to organize and communicate the status of testing so that you and others can easily evaluate your progress. Randy Rice explains the test metrics that can help test managers better understand and report the status of testing. He explains which metrics are the right ones for your projects, how to gather them, how to create a testing dashboard to display them, and how to make mid-course changes so your testing project can reach its destination safely. Randy shares his ideas on how to avoid using metrics in incorrect and dangerous ways. Learn how visible testing metrics increase your team's value to the organization and change your team's reputation from "problem finder" to "information provider."