3 KPIs for Software Development Team Efficiency
A lot of development teams want to be more efficient in their work. The word efficiency may have various meanings. The definition that I see more suited for software development is “a situation in which a person, system, or machine works well and quickly”. Or to put it another way, a team is efficient when it is doing things right. In this post, I will talk about three key performance indicators (KPIs) you should keep under control to review the health of your codebase and of your team.
KPIs for Software Development
In this first section, we will examine three different KPIs for software development that together will give you a quick glance at your codebase and on your development process. These are not the only KPIs that you can measure, but they easily give you a lot of information and they are quite easy to measure. These features make them a great choice when choosing the KPIs that you want to keep under control.
1. Code Coverage
The first metric that I want to analyze is Code Coverage. Code Coverage is a measure to describe the amount (percentage) of code covered by automated tests. Most of the test runners have some kind of option to show the coverage after each test suite execution.
Why Code Coverage is Important
Automated tests are a very important factor for a healthy codebase for a lot of reasons, probably too much to cover all of them in this post. Two characteristics in particular related to efficiency stand out.