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Quality Smell

Manoj Jain Manoj Jain

Manoj Jain

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发布日期: 2022年1月30日
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Quality is one of the most important aspects of software development and it is not just the onus of one function, i.e. quality engineering (QE), but every function or team member who is working on the development of respective software owns quality.

Significant investments are done by organizations in terms of individuals, tools, processes, trainings, rewards, etc. for producing high-quality software. There are various checklists or guard-rails are defined at different phases or events to ensure that nothing gets overlooked due to whatsoever reason(s).

In software development, a quality smell is any characteristic that possibly indicates issue(s) with the quality of the deliverable.
- Manoj Jain

Here is a list of smells and if your team/organization is having them then there are issues with the quality of your deliverables.

  1. Automated unit test coverage is <80% (for line coverage)
  2. Open critical/high priority observations from static code analysis/security scans
  3. % of critical/high priority bugs reported by the QE team is >10%
  4. Automated sanity test suite is NOT getting executed with every build via CI/CD pipeline
  5. Automated regression test suite coverage is <80% (as per code coverage tool and not count of test cases)
  6. Average failure rate of the automated test cases is >5% (before triage of failed TCs)
  7. 90th percentile response time of end-user facing actions is >3seconds at expected (or minimum 100) concurrent users load
  8. Bug escape rate to production is >5%
  9. Test cases are NOT being added to the regression suite for defects reported in the production
  10. RCA/PCA is NOT being conducted for bugs reported by QE or in production

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The thresholds mentioned above are indicative and may vary based on various factors. These benchmarks can be targeted if they aren't defined yet.

Do you see any other smell which indicates quality issues with deliverables?

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George Ukkuru

Helping Businesses Optimize Software Quality & Speed Through AI-Powered Testing | Test Automation | Pre-Sales & Content Strategy | Speaker & Author

3 年

A couple of others. 1 Percentage of UI Automation scripts is more than 40 percentage of all automation scripts available 2. More than 10 percentage of defects are rejected 3. More than 30 percentage of defects are reported outside the sprint in release or hardening sprint.

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Mrinall Krant

People Ops Consultant| Hiring Strategist | HR Renegade | OD Leader

3 年

Brilliant checks Manoj Jain... While automation and tech practices of peer reviews and Quality Circle and other forums set tone to committed QA, a lot of culture element and governance will finally make your wishlist a kind of commandment for QA..

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Vikas Dhall

LinkedIn Top Voice | Intrapreneur | Digital Transformation Leader

3 年

Good Points

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