CSTE_Skill 6.pdfVIP

1Skill 6 Test Reporting Process Outline ? Prerequisites to Test Reporting ? Test Tools used to Build Test Reports ? Test Tools used to Enhance Test Reporting ? Reporting Test Results 1. Prerequisites to Test Reporting ?Define test status data to be collected ?Define test metrics to be used in reporting test results ?Define effective test metrics 1.1 Define Collect Test Status Data ?Test results data ?Test case results and test verification results ?Defects ?Efficiency 1.2 Define Test Metrics Used in Reporting ? Establish a test metrics team ? Inventory existing IT measures ?Develop a consistent set of metrics ?Define desired test metrics ?Develop and implement the process for collecting measurement data ?Monitor the process 1.3 Define Effective Test Metrics ?Definition of measure metric ?Objective versus Subjective Measures ?Good metric attributes ?Test Metric Categories 21.3.1 Two Methods of Measurement ?Atomic measurement - measure ?Derived measurement - metric Measure ?Single quantitative attribute of an entity ?Basic building block ?Should be expressed in numbers ?Standard units of measure should be defined - base Metric ?A mathematical number that shows a relationship between two variables ?A quantitative measure of the degree to which a system, component, or process possesses a given attribute Two Measurement in Software ? Product measurement ? Process measurement Process Measurement ?Metric used to measure characteristics of ? methods, ? techniques ? tools employed in developing, implementing, and maintaining the software system Product measurement ?Metric used to measure the characteristics of the documentation and code 3Software Quality Metric ?A function whose inputs are software data and whose output is a single numerical value that can be interpreted as the degree to which software possesses a given attribute that affects its quality 1.3.2 Two Types of Measurement ?Objective measurement ?Subjective measurement Objective Measurem