Assess Quality, Don’t Measure It
In the sciences, metrology is serious business. In the field of software development, it should be serious, but more often it’s just theatre; an exercise in the ritualistic use of numbers to cast a scientific aura around an otherwise irrational management process. People keep trying to count things that don’t make any sense to count, such as test cases. Here’s why you should be skeptical about measurement of software product quality.
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