Software Testing Fundamentals: Methods and Metrics

Chapter 5: Fundamental Metrics for Software Testing

Table 5.1: Severity Metrics and Ranking Criteria

Table 5.2: Bug Find Rates and Costs, Week 1

Table 5.3: Bug Find Rates and Costs, Week 4

Table 5.4: Relative Seriousness (Composition) of Bugs Found

Table 5.5: Determining If the Test Effort Was Adequate

Chapter 6: The Test Inventory

Table 6.1: Comparison of Two Releases of the Same Application

Chapter 7: How to Build a Test Inventory

Table 7.1: Preliminary Test Inventory from the Billing System Example, Sorted by PDR

Table 7.2: Preliminary Billing Inventory with the Interview Input, Dependencies, Environmental Description, and Test Requirements

Table 7.3: Preliminary Inventory from a Web Project

Table 7.4: Environment Description Matrix

Chapter 8: Tools to Automate the Test Inventory

Table 8.1: Preliminary Inventory from a Web Project

Chapter 9: Risk Analysis

Table 9.1: MITs Rank Index Description and Criteria

Table 9.2: MITs Risk Criteria Samples

Chapter 10: Applied Risk Analysis

Table 10.1: Sample Preliminary Inventory with Ranking

Table 10.2: Data from the MITs Totals Worksheet

Table 10.3: Tester's Paradise Test Sizing Worksheet

Chapter 12: Applied Path Analysis

Table 12.1: Tester's Paradise Test Inventory

Table 12.2: Record from Portable System Monitor

Table 12.3: Sample Test Inventory 3

Chapter 13: Data Analysis Techniques

Table 13.1: The Credit Authorization Truth Table

Table 13.2: Data Set Validation Table

Table 13.3: Sample Test Inventory 3

Chapter 14: What Our Analysis Tells Us and What's in Store in the Near Future

Table 14.1: The Total Tests Identified for the Effort through MITs Analysis

Table 14.2: The Testers Paradise Release 2.0 Sizing Worksheet with MITs