How to successfully measure the tester’s performance

2 Responses to How to successfully measure the tester’s performance

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   Tim Alexander September 21, 2011 at 6:59 pm #

   It’s been done to death, but thought I would mention it here as well. You’re operating on the premise that tester success or performance is measured based on number of bugs found, which is a very, very dangerous assumption to make. This type of measurement has a host of issues, detailed at great length by much smarter people than myself:
   http://www.developsense.com/articles/2009-05-IssuesAboutMetricsAboutBugs.pdf
   http://www.developsense.com/articles/2009-07-ThreeKindsOfMeasurement.pdf
   http://shrinik.blogspot.com/2008/11/perils-of-quantification-what-harm.html
   http://www.kaner.com/pdfs/metrics2004.pdf
   http://www.softwarequalitymethods.com/Papers/DarkMets%20Paper.pdf
   http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728
   http://www.amazon.com/Quality-Software-Management-First-Order-Measurement/dp/0932633242
   http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Lies-Damned-Lies-and-Project-Metrics-Part-1/
   http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Lies-Damned-Lies-and-Project-Metrics-Part-2/
   http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/IT-Management/Lies-Damned-Lies-and-Project-Metrics-Part-3/
   http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Defect-Black-Market.aspx
   http://www.satisfice.com/articles/release_criteria.pdf
   http://www.satisfice.com/presentations/fake.pdf
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   Eugenia Yakhnin March 22, 2012 at 2:12 am #

   I used your cartoons as manuals. Thank You for great job!

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