Using metrics to improve software testing

Software Metrics can aid in improving your organizations Testing Process by (1) providing insight and early visibility into the "real" status of the testing effort, and (2) aid in making assessments as to whether progress, productivity and quality goals are being met. This tutorial presents a practical guide on how to start taking advantage of these new tool s/techniques to aid in improving the testing process. These metric based tools and techniques have successfully been used by (1) software test teams, (2) software developers and, (3) SQA and IV`&V staffs.