Table 13 Measures, processes and goals - Category: QUALITY

^aDefect injection distribution (by Requirements Development, Design, Coding, and Testing)(defects injected in requirements (or design, coding and testing) / all defects removed in system testing * 100%)

P16

Coding, Design, Requirements Development, Testing

G07

^aDefect removal effectiveness (by Requirements Development, Design, Coding, and Testing)(number of removed defects in requirements (or design, coding and testing) /number of detected defects)

P16,P43

Coding, Design, Requirements Development, Testing

G04.4

^aDefect injection rate (by Requirements Development, Design, Coding, and Testing)(number of injected defects/number of removed detected defects)

P06,P15,P16,P40,P43,P49

Coding, Design, Requirements Development, Testing, Review

G08.1;G08.3;G05.5;G05.7;G05.9;G15

^bDefects detection rate per Inspection (number of detected defects/number of performed inspections)

P46

Review

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^bInspection effectiveness (number of detected defects in inspections/number of delivered defects)

P26,P47

Review

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^aInspection rate (inspected product size/ time spent on the inspection)

P18,P21,P26,P32,P37,P40,P41,P42

Review

G04.1;G05.1;G05.2;G04.3;G06.1

^aPercentage of defects caused by faulty logic (number of defects caused by faulty logic /total number of detected defects *100)

P04

Review, Testing

G09.1;G05.4; G09

^aPercentage of defects found in operation (number of defects found in operation/total number of detected defects *100)

P04

Review, Testing

G09.1;G05.4;G09

^aPercentage of high severity defects detected in production (number of high severity defects detected in production /total number of detected defects *100)

P04

Review, Testing

G09.1;G05.4;G09

^aPercentage of high severity defects identified in testing (number of high severity defects identified in testing/total number of detected defects *100)

P04

Review, Testing

G09.1;G05.4;G09

^aPercentage of rejected defects (number of rejected defects/total number of detected defects *100)

P04

Review, Testing

G09.1;G05.4;G09

^aRework percentage (rework effort/total effort *100)

P03,P07,P11,P28

Requirements Analysis, Design, Coding, and Testing

G09.2;G10

^bCompleted task non-conformance density (number of completed tasks/ number of defects of all completed tasks)

P20

Requirements Analysis, Design, Coding, and Testing

G05

^bExpected task non-conformance density (number of tasks expected to be completed/ number of defects of all tasks)

P20

Requirements Analysis, Design, Coding, and Testing

G05

^aRequirements change rate (number of changed requirements /total number of requirements)

P23

Requirements Management

G05.8

^aDefect density (number of detected defects/product size)

P02,P05,P07,P11,P13,P15,P16,P18,P19,P20,P21,P23,P24,P26,P28,P30,P31,P32,P33,P34,P35,P36,P37,P38,P40,P42,P43,P44,P45,P46,P48,P49,P50

Review, Coding, Maintenance, Requirements Analysis, Design, Testing

G02;G05.1;G08.4;G03;G05;G04.3;G04;G05.6;G10;G05.9;G05.10;G04.2;G15

^aReview Efficiency (number of detected defects/ effort spent on the review)

P24

Review

G04.3

^aReview effectiveness (number of defects detected in reviews/total number of defects)

P24,P44

Review

G04.3

Review preparation rate (size of the product to be reviewed/time spent to prepare the review)

P43

Review

G06

Review rate (size of the reviewed product/ time spent on the review)

P43

Review

G06

^aNon-conformance density in system test (number of non-conformances in system tests found by verification and validation/number of system tests reviewed by verification and validation)

P07

Testing

G10.5

^aDensity of defect in test (number of defects detected in test/ number of test cases reviewed)

P07,P09,P17

Testing

G13

^aDelivered defect density (defects detected after product release / product size)

P16,P43,P50

Testing

G05;G05.1

^aSystem test effectiveness (number of defects detected in system test / total number of detected defects)

P07

Testing

G10.5

^aSystem test verification and validation effectiveness (number defects found in system test by review / number of defects found in system test by all sources)

P07

Testing

G10.5

^aTest efficiency (number of defects detected in tests/ number of defects detected in tests + delivered defects)

P16,P50

Testing

G08.4

^aTest non-conformance density (number of non-conformance in test found by verification and validation /number of tests reviewed by verification and validation)

P07

Testing

G10;G10.5

^aTest verification and validation effectiveness (number of defects found in test by review/ total number of defects in test found by all sources)

P07

Testing

G10.5

^aUnit test effectiveness (number of defects detected in unit test / total number of defects)

P07,P26

Testing

G10;G14

^aUnit test verification and validation effectiveness (number of defects in unit tests found by review/number of defects in unit tests found by all sources)

P07

Testing

G10

^bMean time between failures

P01

Testing

G05.3

Test effectiveness (number of defects detected in tests / total number of detected defects)

P43

Testing

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