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  • #13842
    Archana
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    @archana

    When you start testing of a new application, do you have a rate of finding defects in mind (say 1 defect every 10 minutes on an average)?
    Do you focus on that?
    Do you calculate the rate at the end of testing?

    #13877
    Jesper
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    @jesper-lindholt-ottosen

    I don’t focus on defect detection rates or Meantime between failures MTBF. What mostly interests me is MTTR – mean time to recover, ie how fast the defect turn around time is. Sometimes it can be interesting to look at how many “iterations” a defect have before it is closed, but that depends on the number of dev teams.

    I wrote about the rate of active defects here:

    http://www.ministryoftesting.com/2014/04/daily-defect-count-image-camel/ 

    #13942
    Archana
    Participant
    @archana

    Pretty interesting article that.

    I too do not focus on defect detection rate during testing. But at the end of the testing, I do check it once.

    #14004
    Augusto
    Participant
    @augusto-evangelisti

    I tend to focus more on delivering value to my customers

    Ultimate Guide to Reducing the Amount of Defects and other Waste in your Product

    #14323
    Alin
    Participant
    @groza-alin88

    Hi Archana,

    I don’t use any defect detection rate. Personally, I don’t think it is ok to define this rate because defects have different severity. You can find 10 minor bugs in one day and 2 major bugs in the next day. Of course, there can be used metrics with various weights for defects characteristics (severity, likelihood etc.) but you risk focusing more on this metrics/rates and less on testing and quality.

    I have seen managers that use this defect detection rate as a target for the testing team during a specific iteration/sprint, but the rate is set by the managers and not by the testers

    Regards,
    Alin

    #16102
    Ronan Healy
    Keymaster
    @ronan

    Good post on it here too:

    Defect Detection Percentage: handle with care!

     

    #16247
    Tassawer
    Participant
    @tassaweramin

    @ronan an extremely interesting article on DDP.

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