When to Ship? Choosing Quality Metrics

It's time to ship your product and you're looking at pages of data about the testing work you've done over the last year. How well does this data prepare you for making the recommendation to ship the product or delay it-perhaps once again? Do you rely primarily on the data or do you fall back on "gut feel" and intuition to make your decision? In this highly interactive session, Alan Page discusses how common measurements, such as code coverage, bug counts, and test pass rates are often misused, misinterpreted, and inaccurate in predicting software quality. Learn how to select both quantitative and qualitative metrics that evaluate your progress and help you make important decisions and recommendations for your product. Share your own ideas for test and quality metrics and learn how to evaluate those metrics to ensure that they are accurately answering the questions you need them to answer.