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Metrics for software development / Metrics for software development KPI

List of metrics for software development / Metrics for software development KPI:

A software metric is a measurement of quantifiable or countable software characteristics. Software metrics are essential for various purposes, including measuring software performance, planning work items, and measuring productivity

1. Team Velocity

Team Velocity measures the number of story points, quantifying the number and size of product features, completed by the team in the previous sprints.

It helps to understand how much value the team is providing to customers in a given time period.

2. Application crash rate

The application crash rate is the result of how many times the application fails divided by how many times it was used. It reflects the business value delivered and the cost of remediating failures.

3. Code churn

Code churn is a common metric used to measure the efficiency and productivity of software engineers and computer programmers. It's usually measured as the percentage of a programmer's code that must be edited over a short period of time.

This is the measure of the number of times/number of lines of code the development team made changes to a file in the version control.

4.Test Metrics

Test metrics measure test coverage, case pass/fail rates, and cycle time, as well as defect density and removal efficiency.

They allow you to pinpoint the parts of the software that need enhancement and make informed strategic decisions. Also, dev teams can track their progress over time, set goals and targets, and continuously improve the quality of their testing process.

5.Cycle time

Cycle time is a metric that measures how quickly work is completed. It's a subset of lead time, which measures the time between when a story's work starts and when it's completed. 

6. Customer satisfaction
A crucial metric to measure a software product's success.

7. Security vulnerabilities
Vulnerability scans identify security weaknesses in an application. The lower the number of vulnerabilities found, the more secure the software will be.

8. Software performance metrics
scalability
stability
responsiveness
speed
availability

9. Requirement traceability matrix
A requirements traceability matrix is a document that demonstrates the relationship between requirements and other artifacts. It's used to prove that requirements have been fulfilled. And it typically documents requirements, tests, test results, and issues.

10. Scope Creep / Change Request Ratio
Compares the number of open change requests during a time period with the number of closed change requests during the same time period.

11. Code quality efficiency
Code quality is a general evaluation of how well a piece of code is effective, reliable, and maintainable. Code efficiency is a broad term that describes how a program's performance is optimized. 

12. Defect density
Defect density is a metric that measures the ratio of the number of defects in software to its size.
It is calculated by dividing the number of defects by the size of the software. 

For example, if a software product has 100 defects and 10,000 lines of code, its defect density is 0.01 defects per line of code.

13. Defect Leakage
Defect leakage is a metric that measures how many defects are missed during QA testing. It's also known as defect removal efficiency or defect identified by customer.

14. Load Factor
The load factor is the ratio of actual calendar days to complete a task to the developer's estimated "ideal" days to do it. 

15. Planning Commitment / Commitment reliability
A metric that measures how reliable a scrum team's commitment is. It is measured in story points by comparing the total number of story points accepted with the number of story points accepted at the beginning of the sprint.




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