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Measures are quantitatively unit defined elements, for instance, hours, km, etc. Metrics
are basically comprised of more than one measure. For instance, we can have metrics
such as km/hr, m/s etc.
But the success of DRE depends on several factors. The following are some of them:
o Severity and distribution of bugs must be taken into account.
o Second, how do we confirm when the customer has found all the bugs. This is
normally achieved by looking at the history of the customer.
5. Can you explain defect age and defect spoilage?
Defect age is also called a phase age or phage. One of the most important things to
remember in testing is that the later we find a defect the more it costs to fix it. Defect age
and defect spoilage metrics work with the same fundamental, i.e., how late you found the
defect. So the first thing we need to define is what is the scale of the defect age according
to phases. For instance, the following table defines the scale according to phases. So, for
instance, requirement defects, if found in the design phase, have a scale of 1, and the
same defect, if propagated until the production phase, goes up to a scale of 4.
Once the scale is decided now we can find the defect spoilage. Defect spoilage is defects
from the previous phase multiplied by the scale. For instance, in the following figure we
have found 8 defects in the design phase from which 4 defects are propagated from the
requirement phase. So we multiply the 4 defects with the scale defined in the previous
table, so we get the value of 4. In the same fashion we calculate for all the phases. The
following is the spoilage formula.